Word: bearse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mr. Whitney flatly denied, as he had often denied before, that professional bears had had anything to do with the decline in market prices. He said that the short interest decreased by 230,000 shares during the previous week, while the market level fell to a new bottom. A similar...
The Misleading Lady (Paramount) is an old-fashioned little absurdity which gives Claudette Colbert a chance to be cunningly indignant. She wriggles, squeals, wears a smudge of charcoal on her cheek and cries, "Let me go, let me go," or "I would like to kill you!" This is because she...
But there remained some 1,000 wild animals including 40-odd elephants, twoscore lions & tigers, a pair of rhinoceroses, three giraffes (the fourth broke his neck looking at the scenery between Sarasota and New York), many a seal (the best known of which plays crazily on a horn), and a...
He has done plenty. Jonas Lie is a National Academician, painter member of New York's City Art Commission, and a director of the Art Students' League. He was born in Norway in 1880, in his own words "by accident of a Norwegian father and an American mother of Scotch...
Most of the more sacred memories are engendered by reminiscences of a tin trunk that, on rainy days. Author Van Vechten's mother reached off a shelf for him to rummage in. Thinking now of that tin trunk, with its daguerrotypes and snippets of family hair, he remembers placidly that...