Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much maligned motor salesman harmless in comparison with those members of the public who try to cheat the dealer...
Alien Settings. From Piltdown man to Perelman, the history of humor is overwhelmingly male, and only a few representative female names present themselves for comparison with Jean Kerr. The most celebrated is Dorothy Parker, essentially a short-story writer whose glib acidities at and near the Algonquin Round Table gave her a legendary reputation. At the other, soft-boiled end of the world was the late Betty (The Egg and 1 Mac-Donald, an authentic primitive. Jean Kerr will probably never be quite up to Parker (for one thing, she is not cruel nor, perhaps, as deep), and she will...
...Lord Stanley of Alderley, 6th Baron Sheffield of Roscommon, Baron Eddisbury of Winnington and a Baronet, served in a trawler, an ex-U.S. destroyer, a gunboat, during World War II, never in a corvette. For a comparison of corvettes, see cuts...
...their spring vacations in pursuit of sunshine, beer and coeds. This year there was the added stimulus of a sexy film, Where the Boys Are, to bring them running, and the annual invasion was the biggest ever. But, the students discovered, Lauderdale in the spring was dismayingly tame in comparison with the M-G-M script. It was, in fact, just one big. frustrating bore, and the problem was to find something...
...Congolese literacy rate of 50 to 55 per cent is the highest in Central Africa and bears favorable comparison to any nation on that continent...