Word: comely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Come here at once, and don't sidle up to me like a hog going to war." my mother used to say to me, soap in one hand, a wet cloth in the other...
...City Fathers who turned this little-boy prank into a three-ring circus, by roping off the streets and permitting photographers to lie untrampled on their backs, instead of keeping lanes open and business functioning as usual. Newspapers and national broadcasters screamed invitations to all and sundry to come to the Big Show, instead of pleading with the public to ignore the boy and permit sanity to overcome hysteria. John Warde was offered a baseball game, instead of a job. Whatever his last thoughts may have been, it is certain he received the thrill of his unimportant lifetime to find...
...criticizing the committee or its staff but I regret to see that almost all the information it is getting comes from TVA witnesses, who come on the stand and tell us what they want to tell us, except for what additional facts members of the committee can get out of them by questions...
...schools, he declared, and the proletarian State boasts of no less than 50,000,000 bondholders. Putting in figures with broad brush strokes, Commissar Zverev reported that: 1) the State's revenues would be 125,184,000,000 rubles (of which 83,000,000,000 rubles is to come from turnover taxes); 2) the State's expenditures would be 123,684,000,000 rubles (major items: 47,000,000,000 rubles for "financing the national economy," 27,000,000,000 for military and naval expenses); 3) a surplus for the year of exactly 1,500,000,000 rubles...
...have come to value photography more and more," says Charles Sheeler, "for those things which it alone can accomplish rather than to discredit it for the things which can only be achieved through another medium...