Word: budded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Investigation revealed that they will not find the blue coats unprepared, however. It is reported that police will spare no efforts to nip the demonstration in the bud, and thus avoid any disturbance. Reached at his home at a late hour last night, Inspector Goulston of the Red Squad declined to comment...
With their college championships being held this weekend at Moosilaukee on Hell's Highway, Dartmouth is not sending its usual quota of skiers to the A.M.C. race. Bud Titcomb, Ed Meservey, Eddie Wells, and John Litchfield are the wearers of the Green who will try to uphold their past good records...
...cinema worshippers of the house are in a dither of chaotic delight, but Miss Arden is theatrically upset at the boring interlude until she perceives the physical advantages of Bud, the upright and mechanically inclined Adonis. Bud is properly affianced to his loving, apron clad Joyce, but the blonde screen hussy finds his weak point--an invention which will certainly revolutionize the film industry. Dexterous use of this leverage plus a hearty manipulation of her Westian contours puts Miss Arden on the way to success, and the barn. Just as Bud seems on the verge of losing something more valuable...
...fashion. She coos, whimpers, dramatizes, wiggles, and occasionally slips into a very amusing deep-toned vulgarity of speech. Her language is not sufficiently secure to prevent her from "commuting with her soul," contrasting the interior of the house with the "ulterior," and being quite laughable indeed. George Blackwood plays Bud nicely and the rest of the cast is eminently satisfactory...
...elements that make a mature art belongs in the section meetings, but here the time is spent on quizzes and reviews. The interested and intelligent cannot express their ideas while the instructor is rehearsing fundamentals to the lazy and inept. Creative thinking and personal reactions are stifled in the bud, and useless repetition shuts off what might be enjoyable general discussion...