Word: blanks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Turning to agriculture, the Chicagoan attacked the proposed farm bill now pending in Congress as "Just another way to get around the Supreme Court decision invalidating the A. A. A. The new bill gives a virtual blank check to Secretary Wallaco to continue his economy of scarcity...
...There is no blank verse in the play...
...those who charged him with putting France at the mercy of Germany by alienating Britain's sympathy, he pointed out that Britain, as the price of her original adherence to The Deal, exacted a blank-check promise of armed assistance from France. Later Britain's Prime Minister called The Deal "dead." but the French blank check is still alive and Squire Baldwin has every intention of trying to cash...
...Gordon's wife, gets a chance to knock down her brother, Luther Adler, who plays the part of Gordon's partner. Brother Luther thereupon throws a fit. Somebody else knocks down the boy playing brother Ben. The Gordons' Communist furnace man goes around shouting questionable blank verse and has the opportunity to throw a wine glass at a radio during an Armistice Day program. In addition to the sleeping sickness victim there is still another very juicy part, that of an eccentric family friend who totters about muttering significant irrelevancies. He supplies most of the "Chekhovian quality...
...ordinary U. S. citizen were given a blank check and told to go out and buy, according to his own taste, a new painting by a U. S. artist, he would probably pass up the works of Benton, Curry, Wood, Kroll and Speicher, invest in a seascape by Frederick Judd Waugh. Later he would be considerably surprised to learn that the Bentons, the Currys, the Woods, the Krolls and the Speichers all looked disdainfully down their artistic noses at Oldster Waugh (pronounced Waw). Last week for the second successive year Artist Waugh won the $200 prize for the most popular...