Word: bring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said Speaker Bankhead sourly: "Every member of the Cabinet and every bureau chief will bring pressure to bear on their friends in Congress...
Treasury officials expect the island to bring about $4,000. The average lighthouse sells for $1,750 to $2,500. Last sales were in July 1935 when five Maine lights went at prices ranging from $652 to $4,100. Expected to be a notable exception is Atlantic City's 82-year-old Absecon Lighthouse, also up for sale last week with bidding to close Jan. 5. After erosion had left the 167-ft. tower a perilous 75 ft. from shore, jetties were built, the sea restored its sand, the city sprawled out over the new land. Now Absecon stands...
...church and has been staying indoors with "influenza" for some time. Happy rumors rippled in London that Queen Elizabeth may have something better than influenza. His Majesty was always officially Albert (familiarly "Bertie") up to last week but Baldwin the Magnificent (see p. 17) was too cute to bring him on as anything except King George VI. England's notorious first "Four Georges" were justly flayed by Thackeray as the worst and most unpopular monarchs the country ever had, but in 25 years George V made "George" the chief asset today of George...
...woman Prince Edward loves might already be no longer the wife of Mr. Simpson and might become unexpectedly the Duchess of Windsor. On the other hand, in England, the office of the King's Proctor, who has the duty of asking the Attorney General, in doubtful cases, to bring an action and prevent the granting of a divorce in which the "innocent party" (Mrs. Simpson) can be shown to be also adulterous, was much embarrassed last week. Not only had one of the richest women in Britain instructed her lawyers to badger the King's Proctor...
Newt Holley (Walter Brennan) planned to serenade his son Ernie (Joel McCrea) and the latter's bride Pearl (Barbara Stanwyck) with St. Louis Blues on their wedding night. He felt the tune might be a kind of charm to bring him a grandbaby. Newt never got to play the tune that night because Ernie ran away after he had knocked a man into the river for trying to kiss the bride.' When Ernie finally came home again he quarreled so with Pearl that she went to New Orleans with an itinerant photographer (Walter Catlett). Following...