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...Angeles, San Francisco, Miami). "A section of the press of America has long lived and prospered by invading the rights of the individual with a ruthlessness that would do credit to a Hindenburg. By them that valuable guarantee 'Freedom of the Press' has become a meaningless hackneyed byword. To them, printing the amount of a man's income will probably mean no more than commercializing the sorrow of a murderer's mother or the innocent family of a prostitute." ? Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., Proprietor...
...word coined from Gascon, a native of Gascony, whose propensity for bragging was a byword in France. † The total strength of the French Army is about 650,000. The Metropolitan Army (i.e., exclusive of the Colonials) has a peace strength of about 350,000. Possibly the mobilization strength is 3,000,000 or 4,000,000 at the outside. **Poland is not a member of the Little Entente, but has signed military conventions with Czecho-SIovakia and Rumania...
...Dennis was the best hitter of the three, and yet, since the name Dennis was a byword in those days, had it been he who struck out with the bases full, Thayer would most likely have referred to the Dennis factor...
...Story. The Marches' position in the Middle-Western metropolis of St. Pierre was assured ? weren't they the children and grandchildren of old Andrew March who had always saved his pennies and whose name was still a byword for the good old rock-bound kind of success? And Bradford and Penelope March were advance for their day ? they let their children call them by their first names and believed in their being healthy and, as far as possible, free. But Janet, their daughter, was an absolutely modern model with the latest streamline attachments, self-starter...
...discussion of why, when and whom a girl should marry made into the semblance of important entertainment by the brilliant playing ot Lynn Fontanne. MERTON OF THE MOVIES-Reveals what is likely to happen when Main Street migrates to Hollywood. Glenn Hunter has made the movie-struck youth a byword in America. TWEEDLES-The old curiosity shop of the Maine coast made the setting of a satire on the futility of first family ways. It much resembles Booth Tarkington's Seventeen. POLLY PREFERRED - From the lobby of the Biltmore to the lots of Hollywood in quest...