Word: blown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only weapons used are the refusal of advertisements and publicizing the evil there can be no hope of success. Such tactics only move tutoring school ads from the back pages to the front page headlines with nothing but a loss to the business board and a little editorial steam blown off. --Daily Princetonian...
...Recently Londoners have taken to rushing to their windows whenever airplanes drone overhead, as they used to when planes were a novelty. In Nos. 10 and 11 Downing Street and in Whitehall, this psychosis has taken the form of a question: Who will govern Britain if we are blown to Blarney? The Government's first answer to it was to divide all Britain into twelve administrative sections,* each of which would operate as an independent country if cut off from the rest. Last week 13 men were named to be "dictators" of those countries (London has two commissioners) should...
Said aged Premier Colijn hopefully, as Dutch engineers mined the dikes: "I advise all not to be unduly anxious. . . . Humanity's destiny is not in the hands of one man, but in the hands of God Almighty. ... We shall not be blown like reeds in the wind...
Before making the picture, Producer Goldwyn, a stickler for detail, landscaped 540 California acres into a Yorkshire moor. He imported eight British actors, a dialect expert to see that their accents matched, 1,000 panes of hand-blown glass for interior shots and 1,000 heather plants for outdoors. He did not attempt to send for Emily Bronte. In spite of this oversight, there is not much she could have done to improve this screen translation of her masterpiece...
...story is in the title. Katharine acted as a child, as a schoolgirl, in art theatre groups, in stock; at length-and ever more triumphantly-on Broadway. As a neatly blown-up scrapbook of her career, I Wanted to Be an Actress is acceptable enough. But beyond that, the reader draws a blank. Either Katharine Cornell, in her devotion to her profession, has lacked time to study things and people or, having done so, she is resolved to keep mum. Dozens of names, from Greta Garbo's to Alexander Woollcott's, from David Belasco's to Orson...