Word: borings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years, Thy love hath led us, Thou hast been our bulwark strong, Wall of fire against the wicked, Sword of power against the wrong. Thou hast blest of old Thy servants As they bore Thy message far; We who follow in their footsteps Evermore their debtors...
...popular-magazine colleagues, Maugham's stories still give the agreeably shocking sensation of telling the candid, unconventional truth. An expertly professional author, with few illusions about the world he writes of, he concocts tales that often leave a depressing brown taste in the mouth but seldom bore the palate while they are being swallowed. His latest novel-what a famous actress is really like, "inside"-makes entertaining reading, is well up to his high professional standard...
...Michael finally died a natural death. Her Maughamish reaction to the realization that she no longer loved her husband was to stretch, sigh with relief, murmur: "By God, it's grand to be one's own mistress." Now she saw Michael as nothing but a crashing bore, but she had sense enough to stick by him. He was a good manager, a first-rate director. Except for one accidental lapse, Julia was completely faithful to him till she was 46. Then one day Michael brought a young accountant home to lunch. There was nothing remarkable about...
Horatio Alger might have used Mr. Hurley's life as a plot for one of his success-novels. South Boston bore and reared him until he was old enough to go on the stage. His first break was the sickness of the regular quartet at the old Bowdoin Square Theatre. The substitute singers included Hurley as bass, and catching the eye of scouts, they moved down to the big money in New York. Under Charles Frohman for three years, A. H. Woods for three, and Arthur Hopkins from 1918 - 1924, he was combination actor and director of plays with...
...what $1 did before, they also learned that the days of their monopoly were over. Hard-headed and reactionary for the most part, the railroads were literally starved into teaching themselves the rudiments of modern merchandising. Some freight agents may still act as though business were a bore, some conductors may still regard passengers as trespassers, but by & large the roads are out to make friends as they never were before. Faster freight schedules, highly-publicized high-speed trains, 8,000 air-conditioned passenger cars, freight pick-up-&-delivery service are all exciting evidences of the railroads' rebirth. Most...