Word: defied
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...First defi went up in A entry yesterday when a Junior posted a notice to decorators stating that nobody is going to pain his room until after examinations, June...
...nearly half the interest rates she would have had to pay at home. Second reason for the loan is the belief of every Frenchman that whatever may or may not come of the Roosevelt-Herriot-MacDonald conversations in Washington, U. S. isolation as a world power is defi- nitely over. What this might mean for France they could not yet tell, but threats of further U. S. inflation had every French statesman, every businessman worried. Frenchmen, badly burned by their own inflation of 1924-25. would throw out by nightfall any government that suggested a parallel move. In effect...
...blatant plot of Five and Ten, conceived and executed as a magazine novel by Author Fannie Hurst, permits Marion Davies, hitherto an adroit though kittenish comedienne, to attempt an emotional role. Although Hearst papers, as is customary, hailed her efforts loudly, her defi ciencies were made more than usually apparent by juxtaposition with the work of smooth, skilful Leslie Howard. The 5? & 10? store tycoon, chief character in the book but not the cinema, is able Richard Bennett, father of Cinemactresses Joan and Constance and Cabaret Dancer Barbara Bennett...