Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...return with a victory over either Queens, whom they meet at Kingston tonight, or ever Toronto whom they face Saturday. Coach Dick Vaughan of Princeton, jubilant over Wednesday night's tie, didn't respect the Crimson's chances much after the game when he said, "I'll bet my bottom dollar Harvard gets scalped twice up there...
...faith which U. S. investors have had in Cuba's $80,867,000 worth of defaulted Public Works bonds, a faith which has inched the bonds from a record low 19¾ in 1933 to 74⅞ early this year, was climaxed politically in Havana last week. The bottom of 19! was hit soon after Dictator Gerardo Machado was forced to flee the island following the 1933 revolt. Eight years before he had embarked on an ambitious construction program which called for a 7O0-mile highway skewing the island; and streets, schools, public buildings for Havana. It was largely...
...violent routines, sing a song, Pussy Pussy, that has hit possibilities. Zorina and the Metropolitan Opera ballet appear in two elaborate dances, one a banal number, the other (high point of the picture) a superlatively beautiful water nymph dance in which Zorina, in skintight gold tunic, rises from the bottom of a fountain to astound a gentleman in dinner clothes. The Goldwyn girls, trade-mark of every Sam Goldwyn musical, appear only in the jazz v. classics ballet, are sorely missed thereafter...
...almost two years she was held, while the ice drifted slowly north, and when at last she broke free, leaking like a sieve, another pack crushed her like a giant nutcracker, heaved her almost above the surface, then opened again to let her plunge to the bottom...
...investigated the Jeannette'?, fate, parts of Commander De Long's journal were published, but what happened in the two years in the ice pack remained a mystery. Piecing the story together from these documents and unpublished writings of other members of the crew, Commander Ellsberg (On the Bottom) has tried to make its terrors more oppressive by the device of having it told by Chief Engineer Melville as a first-hand observer. Not altogether successful, the device enables Commander Ellsberg to put hackneyed remarks in the mouths of the characters that rob the book of authority without making...