Word: beau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charming and pathetic parodies of a humdrum adult world. Both books devote much attention to the social background. At the time of Byron's fame, England was ruled by the fat, "superbly filthy" Prince of Wales, later George IV, who was known to have burst into tears when Beau Brummell criticized his clothing, and whose greatest achievement was his construction of the pleasure resort at Brighton (TIME, Aug. 19). Since George III was locked up as a madman, the prestige of royalty had never been so low. When machinery was introduced, workers rioted, smashing frames and power looms that...
...scene where Alice is at last forced to have her beau to dinner in their ugly little house is a classic. The night is stifling, the dinner is much too heavy, could go wrong does from the disintegration of father's dinner clothes, to some of the most convincing embarrassed conversation you ever heard...
...compared to Gallant Fox's $308.000 in 1930. At the Fasig-Tipton Old Glory sales of yearling trotters held each autumn in New York City, prices average about one half those at the Fasig-Tipton yearling sales at Saratoga. On the other hand, until Sun Beau passed her record in 1931, the biggest money-winning horse in history was Goldsmith Maid, a trotter who, in 123 races from 1865 to 1877, won $364,200. Foaled by a dam who pulled a cart for a New Jersey hat peddler, a farm horse until she was 6, Goldsmith Maid had raced...
...four companies involved-Beau-harnois Light, Heat & Power; Ottawa Valley Power; Maclaren-Quobec Power; Gatineau Power-have $172,000,000 of bonds in the hands of U. S., .Canadian and British investors. Typical is Gatineau, nearly one-half of whose annual revenue of around $9,000,000 is derived from its contracts with Hydro. In Gatineau's case, however, the Premier proposed to make a partial exemption for practical operating reasons: Hydro might buy Gatineau current at present rates "as it deems advisable...
...without a fight. A quarrel with Jotham and a sudden turn of good luck for Dan sends Molly into the kitchen of Dan's Sarsey Sal. A tranquil panorama by Currier & Ives, The Farmer Takes a Wife becomes emotionally articulate only when Molly is trying to infect her bumpkin beau with her passion for The Big Ditch...