Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...waits between the play's fifteen scenes. But audiences will forget the pink parachutes painted over the Kremlin, they will forget the startling beauty of the chorines, and they may even forget the tunes. Yet the portrait of a new Babbitt, from Topeka, Kansas, who likes nothing better than pitching horseshoes with the boys, will remain in their minds as a tribute to Mr. Moore and a charming conception of true Americanism...
...Yankees needed only four games to prove that they were not odds-on favorites for nothing-not only better sluggers (for which they are famed) but better fielders, better pitchers-a well-oiled baseball machine that made the Cubs look as though they would have felt more at home in the Three-I League...
After that, the suitor decides he will be better off single...
...says one, "je n'aime pas le cri de ces animaux." Better than Indians, says the other. By the way, says the first, you haven't seen any snakes tonight, have you? No, not tonight-"Ce sont de sales bétes, ces serpents a sonnettes. . . " At the end of the Revolution, Lafayette cries: "C'est la victoire . . . l'alliance entre les Etats Unis et la France a triomphe!" Last program is a grand roundup of U. S. noises, including the roar of "les chutes du Niagara" birds twittering, a bear's grunt. Coney Island...
...when the notes matured, the Nickel Plate was losing $4,000,000 a year (it earned $7,000,000 in 1929) so the road paid 25% of each note in cash, got a three-year extension from the noteholders for the rest. In 1935 things were no better and the maturity date was again extended...