Word: contentedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effect, amends only those parts of the Volstead Act which today limit the alcoholic content of "beer, lager beer, ale, porter" to ½%. Whiskey, gin, rum, wine and the like are still left legally taboo. Untouched are the scale of penalties for Prohibition violations. As large and complex as ever are the restrictions on industrial alcohol. H. R. 13,312, with many a change in definition, does nothing more than set up a complete legal exception for 3.2% beer from the 18th Amendment. To raise revenue it taxes the new beer $5 per bbl.?the brewers' chosen figure?thus...
...evangelical content of Re-Thinking Missions was also too meagre for the United Presbyterian Church of North America, whose Board of Foreign Missions repudiated its "deflection from the fact that Jesus Christ is the only and eternal...
Competition among the cod liver oil sellers was not nearly so bad before what happened last year when Dr. Halibut Fish was certified as an accumulator of concentrated Vitamin A in his liver. His Vitamin D content was less significant. Abbott Laboratories of Chicago and Parke, Davis fortified A-rich halibut liver oil with viosterol (a concentrated Vitamin D), called the product haliver (portmanteau for halibut liver) oil with viosterol, and exploited the trade name Haliver so vigorously, that Mead Johnson last month took six consecutive pages of advertising in one journal to remind doctors, in large sultry yellow, type...
...manager of Hollywood and furnish ample opportunity for the exercise of his pre-view talent. Little need be said of the spider web which ironically enough must develop at times into a stout hempen rope, that gives excuse for the presence of George M. Cohan. And it does not content itself with a single exhibition of its star but must with unparalleled magnanimity, offer him to the audience twice, once as T.K. Blair, the nominee for the presidency of the land, and again as the mountebank who is hired as a double to make up for the lack...
...German cities, while New York is the only city in America which has a live theater. The German audience, the lecturer said is cultured, and moreover discriminating. Its taste is such that it demands plays which are good not only today, but which have a dramatic and intellectual content which make them of permanent value. The Germans go to the theater to learn, not primarily to enjoy a spectacle...