Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...farm are cultivated and his barns and Negro shacks are only now being made less down-at-heel than those of his cracker neighbors. Largest crop this year was corn, with some 100 acres producing an average of 15 bu. per acre - not enough to justify an AAA corn contract...
...Tennessean . . . that (Iraniland Rice first rose to full power. He had worked . . . with Suter in a publishing business in Washington. He joined the Tennessean under contract to produce daily one lull editorial column feature (mostly verse) called "Tennessee-Uns" and to handle sports. He wrote nearly a full column of sports verse and views daily. The only way he could write was with both legs spraddled across the typewriter, lolling back in an armchair. And no wonder, considering his daily output...
...actress with minor parts in European stock companies. When she returned to the U. S., she toured for nine months with a tent show before taking a small Broadway part in The Second Man. A one-night Hollywood performance in No More Ladies led to an M-G-M contract. She is a collector of first editions of children's books, reasonably good at fashionable sports and lives in the smallest house (living room, bedroom, bath) in Beverly Hills. Afflicted by chronic insomnia and aware that she will not be able to sleep until dawn, she employs every decorous...
...contract fiend or even if your tasters run only as far as Old Maid, you might be interested to know that there is a pack of Hindustani cards in the archives of Widener which was invented by a king's wife to make him stop pulling hairs out of his beard...
When a case is submitted to the AAA either jointly or by the disaffected party to a contract containing an arbitration clause, some 25 names are suggested as arbitrators. Each side strikes from the list any objectionable names and from the remaining roster the AAA picks the three arbitrators. At least one always knows the business or profession involved. Hearings seldom last more than one day, though each side may present evidence, produce witnesses, hire lawyers...