Word: collections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though you tried to collect a large sum, Sum! sum! Your ostrich, named Benny, Is not worth a penny...
...Spanish, part Negro, produced more resentment than results. In less than two years, however, Governor Roosevelt has done more to win their confidence than others in the last 20 years. He learned Spanish. He traveled over the islands. He set up relief stations, went to the U. S. to collect funds, to fight Porto Rico's battles before an indifferent Congress. He addresses the natives as "We Porto Ricans." Altogether his administration has been an extraordinary success...
...story isn't exciting or unusual, but the picture is immensely entertaining. You will enjoy the tale of the doctor who doesn't collect jades, but is collected by them. On the stage is Borace Heidt, the college idol of the middle classes and the hero of the sales girls, leading his band through some tricks. His music however, is altogether good...
...invitation of the American Council of Learned Societies a group of scholars met at Yale two years ago to consider the plan. Within the next two years the work for Southern New England is expected to be completed. A questionnaire has been prepared through which field workers will collect characteristic facts of pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary, to establish dialectic differences. In addition speech records will be taken...
...Kings, Two Queens. Adolf Hitler has no wife and only what money he can collect (German Magnaten have been generous). But Lady Cynthia Blanche Mosley, daughter of the late, great Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, brings to her husband many of the golden millions left by her Jewish grandfather, Levi Zeigler Leiter of Chicago...