Word: comely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Polish Will Come...
Chief distinction of Come Across: it is perhaps the first English play within living memory where, throughout three whole acts, nobody drinks-or even mentions-a dish...
...London fur broker, the challenger. Over Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats, considered the most satisfactory auto-racing strip in the world,* the two Englishmen, with no more fanfare than two moppets sliding down a hill to see who could go farther, took turns to see who could come closer to traveling six miles a minute-and incidentally break the world's land-speed record of 311 miles an hour, set last year by Captain Eyston...
...vacation in Europe, RCA President David Sarnoff compared Europe's dictators to Suicide John Warde, who waited eleven hours on a Manhattan window ledge before leaping to his death (TIME, Aug. 8): "To Europe's ledge-walkers is promised this or that in case they come inside, but it does no good. It is a pity that Europe is not able ... to say: 'All right, go ahead and jump if you want to, but it will...
...final desparation Thomas Leary hit upon one final scheme. He attempted to got President F. D. Roosevelt to come to Cambridge and make a speech to purge his opponent; Leary was sure his opponent would walk to victory...