Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Charles G. Haines, visiting professor of Government, returned to the simpler method of refusing to comment, saying simply, "No, nothing to say." Benjamin F. Wright, assistant professor of Government, also refused to say anything for publication. Payson S. Wild, assistant professor of Government, elaborated a bit more, saying he felt "something of the sort would have to be done if we were to have an efficient democracy. I think it's rather ingenious, but Im not appalled...
...hangers-on around the doors of a musical show, but the legitimate stage has become terribly proper." It seems that picking up is now done by appointment, with introductions, letters, and complete formality. "One must bear in mind," she continued, "That acting on the legitimate stage is every bit as serious work as writing a paper." As a matter of corroborative detail she recounted in experience she once had during a run in Chicago. At a cocktail party a dowager under full sail bore down on her, snorting, "How things have changed. A few years ago it was the theatre...
...monopolize the field of after-dinner entertainment, was a prosperous engineer. When he lost his job and his money in 1930, he got along by selling gadgets, doing odd jobs like mending furniture and building his friends' fishponds in the Philadelphia suburbs. The first Monopoly board was a bit of oilcloth left over from a roll used to cover a kitchen table. In 933> two years after he had designed the game, Inventor Darrow put it on the market privately. Since Parker Brothers took it over in the spring of 1935, Monopoly, first smash hit perfected by an amateur...
...mark it was down to 7! in. Meantime Texas Corp.'s Rigolette No. 5 in the Lafitte field in Louisiana was brought in last month at 10.244 ft., setting a new depth record for a producing oil well. At McGonigle No. 12 the bit, now down to 4! in., ground around & around until it was down to 10,569 ft., just nine feet over two miles. Then the oil flowed, bringing back to Tide Water the title it has held six times since 1921, when 4,683 ft. was deep enough for a world record, C. Offered last week...
Tired, but cheered by more than a dozen encores during the evening, Miss Henie was radiant as she joined her father and mother. She shook the flowered coronet from her golden hair, looking every bit as attractive as she does in her new film...