Word: boils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago their quarrel burst like a boil: Elaine quit the show in a spuming huff. A few days later, performing before Omaha's highbusted Drama League, John was royally pickled. Up & down traveled his voice, to a bull-like bellow, to a bird-like whisper. Scandalized were Omaha's great ladies when he ad-libbed such lines as "Albert, you look like a pregnant string bean." Afterwards Barrymore's press-agent offered the excuse that he had been "very tired." Concurred the Drama League's lady president: "He must have been very, very, VERY tired...
That was enough to make Mr. de Valera's blood boil. Next day he got up in the Bail Eireann and announced that because of "yesterday's grave event" he had suddenly canceled his trip to. the U. S. to see President Roosevelt and the New York World's Fair. Simultaneously Mr. de Valera informed British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain that his Government would take a "serious view" of any attempt to conscript Irishmen, whether they live in Eire, Northern Ireland, England, Scotland or Wales...
...hybrids survived in Europe as hunters and fishers. Meanwhile, in the Mediterranean area a race of pure Homo sapiens ancestry appeared which learned agriculture and animal husbandry. Some of them moved north and west to blend with the hunters and fishers. Thus the European melting pot was set to boil, and hundreds of further migratory stirrings, major and minor, kept it seething...
...letters "ESP" have the effect of a red rag on a bull. "ESP" means extrasensory perception, i.e., telepathy and clairvoyance. Dr. Joseph Banks Rhine of Duke University believes that his card-guessing experiments (TIME, Dec. 10, 1934) prove the existence of ESP. The various criticisms aimed at him boil down to the charge that he has not maintained the rigorous objectivity and experimental control demanded of serious research...
...agreed that more books would be sold if people had more money to buy them, more time to read them. Obvious solutions would be to make books cheaper and shorter. For most publishers either course is close to impossible. For magazine publishers who can buy the right to boil down books, the problem is not so tough...