Word: conned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William Randolph Hearst, still championing a marriage of King Edward & Mrs. Simpson, had his London correspondents stop 100 people last week and ask them whether they were pro or con-a laborious process since it involved explaining about the King & Mrs. Simpson to British subjects, most of whom have never heard of her. Next day Hearst papers announced that 80 of the 100 questioned declared themselves in favor of such a match. Hearstmen then queried British officials in every Dominion and in India without finding any who cared to go on record as opposed to a marriage of the King...
...course the Professor may have been referring to the depressing stabs Americans make at actual gayety--that is, when they are working so hard to have a good time. Americans at play are generally a gloomy sight, indeed. A Rotary lunch-con, an American Legion convention or Coney Island is enough to dismay any philosopher, and the Puritans must have looked a great deal better while taking the one worldly pleasure they were not ashamed of--to wit, getting quietly and augustly fuddled...
...outcome of the game largely depends. Last Saturday, Army's line did not turn in a world-beating account of themselves in their 27-16 victory against Columbia. Nor were their lower drives too formidable. The victory was essentially a Meyer pass product. All this week, Harlow has con- centrated on stopping the Meyer missives, and the Crimson star hangs largely on the success of these efforts...
...attempt to froth a happy ending over Ramona's widow-weeds is not a major flaw. The picture is so pictorially arresting it might almost do without a story. Dark cottonwoods and yellow wheat, the greens and reds and rolling con-tours of the San Jacinto mountains where it was filmed, spread themselves out for the technicolor camera like a war-chief's blanket. Historically accurate since there has been little change in the landscape since 1870, Ramona pours its eye-filling opulence through many frames: Ramona's wedding breakfast, the horse race at the Fiesta, Alesandro...
Perpetual agitation, arguments pro and con, and even occasional vituperation were climaxed by the establishment of the present center during the summer...