Word: comfortably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...everything he knew, made him walk every day to strengthen his feeble legs, carrying an iron rod. From the very beginning of his career Belmonte was frequently hurt: his bad legs made it impossible for him to run fast; he always let the bull pass him too close for comfort, sometimes too close lor safety. He served a rough apprenticeship in the ring, fighting wherever and for whatever he could. With his first profits he rescued his family from the poorhouse...
...begged them to cut down expenses, but they won't. From 1920 to 1930, I gave my father $461,000 and of that amount I got not more than $200 a month." Mary Astor promised in future to support her family "in comfort but not extravagance." Wharf Angel (Paramount). It is a cinema tradition that the medium for introducing a new star should be a picture in which she performs as a prostitute with more principles than profits. In Wharf Angel Toy (Dorothy Dell) is a San Francisco bad girl, rehabilitated by her pure love for Como (Preston Foster...
...third party also had a huge stake in the struggle. For the Administration a shut-down of the automobile industry, its prize child of Recovery, would be a severe blow. The strike question therefore became a three-cornered battle in which the Administration might give aid and comfort to either side provided a showdown could be pre vented. Fortnight ago here was a preliminary skirmish when the A. F. of L. Automobile Workers' Union demanded a 20% wage increase and recognition. Last week the opening gun of the battle was fired by the National Automobile Chamber of Com merce...
Pope Pius XI smiled last week and back to Annam in French Indo-China, to little Marie Nguyen Hu Hao, 18, Chinese Catholic betrothed to Bao Dai. Buddhist Emperor of Annam, went tidings of comfort and joy. Marie's question to the Holy Father: "Would the Church sponsor her Buddhist-Catholic marriage if she gave her girl children to the Church, her boy children to the Buddhist dynasty of Annam" (TIME, March 19)? The Pope's answer, announced unofficially from Rome by way of Paris...
...talked of a bank whose stock would be subscribed in land. But Hamilton's bank was to be a specie bank or no bank at all. The president, directors and company of the Bank of New York were organized with $500.000 capital. Among the directors were Nicholas Low, Comfort Sands and a doughty old sugar refiner named Isaac Roosevelt who later became the bank's president and whose first cousin four times removed was to become 25th President of the U. S. and whose great-great-grandson was to become 32nd President of the U. S. The directors...