Word: conning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wriggle awfully self-consciously. You say: "... Many sound wine critics con-cede . . . that in its class . . ." etc., etc. What is a sound wine critic? I am a sound wine critic. It is confounded snobbery to think that the only people who can tell good wine from bad are experts who spend their short lives sipping and spewing out, sipping and spewing out. never swallowing a mouthful for fear of perverting their taste. I myself have no fear of perverting my taste. And I am just about the only wine critic in the world...
...already intimated, Charlotte Greenwood, amazingly resourceful as Letty, and equally versatile as herself, is the raison d'etre of the show. Con- sequently, her support is rather faulty. Romaine Callender, for example, painfully overdoes the part of the minister. Of course, it might be pleaded that the acting within the acting should not be perfect, lost it cease to be acting. Russell Fillmore and Isabel Withers are good enough as the dim-witted, ineffectual brother-in-law and sister of the heroine. But good or bad, none of the supporting cast matters much. As the revelation or re-introduction...
This Symphony in G major, opus 41, is divided into three movements: (1) Allegro grazioso ma con brio (2) Molto moderato ma non troppo lente (3) Allegro energico...
...Minnesota, twice defeated in non-con-ference play (by Nebraska and Notre Dame), again clinched the Big Ten championship, by defeating Wisconsin...
...Harvard-Yale game, the day when the outcome of months of con-centrated, preparation will be decided in 60 minutes of controlled warfare. Everyone from a steelstands ticket holder to the 22 starting players are at a high nervous tension, a tension which will map with the closing whistle...