Word: doled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minister's son, handsome, six-foot, 39-year-old Norman McLeod left Oxford to become a World War aviator, left Europe to become an assistant director on Christie comedies. In Hollywood he drew cartoons (as decorations for subtitles), became so proficient with his wiry, single-line caricatures that Dole Pineapple Co. pays him well for the right to use them. In directing he uses his pencil sketches to show the actors what he wants...
...created a new industry-one of the biggest in the country. Last year ?40,000,000 ($200,000,000) changed hands in British football (soccer) pools-a weekly win, lose or draw forecast of the big-league matches. Started just after the War and nurtured by Depression and the dole, football pools, aided by well-advertised slogans like "You can make a fortune for a penny," have grown each year until today it is reckoned that pool coupons go to three out of every four people in England. By last week this parasitic phenomenon had caused so much alarm that...
...pretty busy week for the H. A. A., and it's no wonder the boys dole out the ducats in grumpy fashion. For the last few years, when even the ushers felt lonely during the games, the A. A. boys had wolves at the door. That was bad enough. This year, with a sellout, Quincy Street has been so thick with speculators that the boys would probably be glad to go back to the wolves...
...while he was unemployed. Many of its lines were inspired, according to him, by retorts he thought of too late to say to bobbies, servants, uppity people. The play's long run in London and the sale of cinema rights are said to have disqualified him for the dole by some...
...Cradle Will Rock reports, with controlled and eloquent class hatred, a steel strike. Mr. Mister is the mill owner. He corrupts a doctor, bulldozes an editor, terrorizes a college president and arranges for the assassination of a labor organizer. Mrs. Mister gives a clergyman his weekly dole and tells him what to say in his sermons. She keeps a painter and a musician on her string. The two sing a song which goes...