Word: baring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stern, scarlet Mother Hubbard is the Soviet State. In one of her Moscow cupboards she keeps tons of jam (most Russians fancy gooseberry with the seeds left in). Lately this cupboard has been almost bare. Nine greedy Comrades, including the Warehouse Manager, have been stealing jam (especially gooseberry), peddling it for sky-high prices on Moscow's illicit "open markets." Last week they squealed confessions, begged mercy...
...continue its boasted policy of "Athletics for All," there must be created some sort of endowment fund to supplement gate receipts and make budget balancing a somewhat less ephemeral procedure. Certainly the difficulties into which the H.A.A. has fallen this year to a real service in laying bare the tottery financial foundation of Harvard's ambitions athletic program...
...while we agree with Mr. White's ideas we doubt if he leaves his show in its present form for long. There are too many bare spots, moments when graciousness turns into just plain dullness. More sparkle, more vitality must be had before the New York run is attempted. Everett Marshall and Evelyn Herbert sing some grand songs by Romberg and Hal Skelly still seems to know how to handle his women. With just a little something to do and more help from the chorus "Melody" might uphold a real ideal and, incidentally, be about fifty percent better...
...make you believe that he is likely to do it again. Another thing which, by making Tom Collier's predicament more lifelike, makes his final decision less plausible, is the deletion of many funny lines which Author Barry wrote for the mistress. Ann Harding is left with the bare essentials of a role which requires her to walk up & down her studio apartment being too arduously brave...
This year handsome Viscount Sankey, the Lord Chancellor, had prorogued (closed) Parliament a bare five days before the King-Emperor opened it. Thus the performance last week was pure ceremony...