Word: concoctions
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Every bonus bill has to be concocted by a mathematical expert who can make it look cheap to taxpayers, liberal to veterans, possible to the Treasury. Senator Harrison did not try to concoct anything so difficult out of his own head. He went to the Veterans' Administration, got its best wizard with figures to do the job. Assistant Administrator Harold Walker Breining is a fat, fortyish actuary who, since 1917, when he went overseas in field service for the Division of War Risk Insurance, has been making statistical tables dance jigs for the Government. Mr. Breining found...
...whose enthusiasm for pure learning is too weak to call forth his best efforts may develop something approaching a real intellectual passion if the things he studies in from undergraduates. Festering in their cocoons of red tape, the magnifies of the Bursar's Office have managed to concoct a truly astounding college seem of real consequence and bearing on the problems of the day. Any college which fails to take advantage of this opportunity of arousing the interest of its students is doing less than society has a right to expect...
...Tenth Avenue wife; Dr. and Mrs. Talbot; an elderly actress, Carlotta Vance, trying to squeeze an income out of her stocks: these, with her husband, her daughter, Paula, and her daughter's pleasant young fiance are the people for whom Mrs. Millicent Jordan has her cook concoct an aspic in the shape of a British lion, with flags in his forepaws. Between the time that she makes her arrangements and the time her guests assemble in the drawing room, the picture has revealed their private lives, rearranged their relations with each other. Carlotta Vance has sold her stock...
...test case Editor Willard E. Hawkins had his 19-year-old daughter, Stephana, concoct "the most impossible, inane and childish semblance of a story that it was possible to conceive." Miss Hawkins produced "Her Terrible Mistake, by Lottie Perkins." It told how "Mary Jane Smith ... a very pretty girl of 17 . . . fell devinely in love with a very nice fellow who was a machinic by the name of Jack Berry." A slick city stranger comes to town, is about to seduce Mary Jane when her "fionce" exposes him as "a villian in sheeps clothing ... a traveling salesman." "O Jack...
...into a goaty little man in an Isotta Fraschini. They introduce themselves from adjoining cots, the former being none other than George Bernard Shaw, the latter Luigi Pirandello. Since they are to be confined for at least a week while their bruises heal, the international playwriting team agrees to concoct a drama to be acted by the asylum's inmates...