Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before his power was realized. "I never was really a soldier-just an armed citizen!" The President is fond of saying, and today he is neither Fascist nor Communist nor Socialist-just a Mexican who will naturally skin any gringos he can and who devotes his life to bettering, by fair means or foul, the lot of his own people, the Indians. Recently he boasted: "The great masses of the Mexican people are eating better than ever before. . . . The tendency in Mexico is toward general betterment. . . . President Roosevelt has labored to better the conditions of the farmers and industrial workers...
...shout of "Hey!" or "Oi!" -had reached the continent, had penetrated even to Scotland. And last week, Arthur Murray, Manhattan dance teacher, returned from Europe with the Lambeth Walk at his toe-tips, vowing to launch it as a U. S. diversion. Said he: "It will undoubtedly be better than the Big Apple. It's extremely simple, gay, and makes adults act like children...
Some of the statistical discoveries were more surprising: e.g.,, that a high-school youngster who 'is good in English or mathematics has the best chance of making good in college. But if he is good only at music or,art, he had better think twice about matriculating. These talents have a low correlation with other subjects; artists and economics do not go together...
...standard posture of the guest of honor at a stickup and the figure then declines, round, rigid as a concrete pipe and innocent of fold or human line, to the waist, where it disappears into a bar rel. ... I, personally, will undertake tc set to work . . . and make a better statue of St. Francis...
...this, Sculptor Bufano's artistic friends were not slow to remark that a "drool cloth" was something Mr. Pegler needed himself. Sculptor Bufano promptly challenged Pegler to make good on his offer to sculp something better. The horseplay stage of the controversy then began. Old Newshawk Pegler played ball with the boys by posing for photographs in an artist's smock and beret. Sculptor Bufano made a scornful sketch of Sculptor Pegler's statue. Finally completed last week and cast in plaster, Pegler's model was shipped to San Francisco. It was called "Mrs. George Spelvin...