Word: ashe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wife of Radio Tenor Morton Downey, who last week became temporarily blind from exposing his eyes to a sunlamp. Joan, youngest daughter, married when she was 16, divorced at 18, now gets $2,000 a week from Fox (current picture: Hush Money). Constance, most spectacular of the three, has ash-blonde hair, big round eyes, bow-lips and an expletive vocabulary reputed to be the equal of her father's. As a débutante, she was one of the most provocative college prom girls of the Scott Fitzgeraldized era. Her second husband, Millionaire Philip Plant, caused...
...they transfer the emphasis from memory to creating thought and imagination. They give us a more definite standard for judging the intelligence and growth of the student, and they give written examinations a decreasingly important place in education. That is as it should be, for memory is only the ash that is left after enthusiasm and analysis have burned a path into uncharted realms; and written examinations depend too much on the moods of the student and the corrector to be left in college education much longer...
...Formula: 3.5% fat, 3.98% casein, .77% albumin, 4% milk sugar, .7% ash (salts), .18% miscellaneous solids, 86.87% water...
...subjects to a minute character-analysis. After his pet orangutan dies and Mr. Bulgakov pays a visit to the novelist's wife, up pops the devil. The scientist feigns madness (a circumstance which will extenuate his crime), kills the lady's husband with a very heavy ash tray. Then follows Mr. Bulgakov's big scene, with a stage entirely to himself. It turns out that he really is mad. For 15 minutes he rants, chatters, tears his hair, sweats copiously, prostrates himself, gives a fine exhibition of ornate oldtime play-acting in the best tradition of Richard...
...course of removing the old fence, an old ash tree had to be chopped down, four men taking eight hours to saw through the tree. It was found to be 300 years old by actual count of the seasonal rings...