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These nominations are now being considered along with those from other colleges by the department's personnel divan...
...some sort of Biblical patois, a bastard St. James version of English, which succeeds only in producing considerable confusion and some ludicrous metaphors. In the fourth place, the acting is ridiculously wooden. Hedy Lamarr spends almost all of her waking hours draped on a half-dozen strategically placed divans or leaning against a tentpole, apparently the B.C. equivalent of a lamppost. And she rushes from divan to tentpole with such speed and determination that you begin to wonder whether old C. B. DeMille has lost his touch. In the fifth place, Victor Young's musical score is monotonous and sounds...
First there was Benny the Meatball, but he had run screaming into the night with five bullet holes in him. Then came "Bugsy" Siegel, but he died ignobly (of four rifle slugs) while sitting on a divan in his girl's house. After that, sad-eyed little Mickey Cohen became the undisputed boss of Los Angeles' gangdom...
...Divan. This week Lloyd, convalescing from a serious gall-bladder operation, stood at another satisfying apex of his life. He had given himself unstintingly to Shrine activities. He had been Al Malaikah Temple's Potentate. For the past seven years he had worked among the Shrine's crippled children's hospitals, had been a director and trustee of that program, which is a substantial and sober part of Shrine activities. It maintains 16 hospitals, annually raises millions of dollars through its circuses, East-West football game, annual dues and local contributions...
...temple nominated him for Imperial Outer Guard, which is the first and only contested place in the Shrine's national hierarchy (candidates spend large sums on favors like fountain pens and tie clasps, and set up many a drink). Once in the hierarchy, called the Imperial Divan, the select and exalted nobles move up automatically one position each year until reaching the Imperial Potentateship. Lloyd was defeated for Outer Guard the first year; the next year his rivals withdrew, and he was unanimously elected...