Word: buts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Never having been to Hollywood, I don't know what the place is like and don't care. But from a purely philological interest I'd like to know what language the quoted lady speaks.
We can't all qualify as scholars, but we can be interested and benefited. Personally, I think "popularizers" such as Will Durant, H. G. Wells, TIME and LIFE are justified. Don't you?
Third Term. The Gallup Poll showed a 2.2% decline in the President's popularity. But on the third term issue the FORTUNE Survey indicated the greatest shift of public opinion that it has recorded. In its December issue, FORTUNE revealed that 47.4% of the people favor a third term...
Out of the White House comes either Mississippi's Senator Pat Harrison or North Carolina's Bob Doughton, fresh from a lunch with Franklin Roosevelt. (Sometimes they come out together, but this is usually considered bad stagecraft.)
Last week came time for the annual first act. But Playwright Roosevelt added a curtain-raiser to Act I, in which he himself appeared in a new role-that of a penny-squeezing pinchfist. Scrimper Roosevelt let it be known he was wearing blue pencils to the stub, slashing $1...