Word: doned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What are your habits regarding sleeping? A. I sleep between seven and eight hours a night regularly, between 11 p. m. and 7 a. m. I fall asleep at once, no matter what I have done or what has happened to me during the day. I use no expedients to invite sleep and take no siesta during the day. Siestas are the consequence of overeating at lunching...
...Done It (by Mary Coyle Chase; Brock Pemberton, producer) is notable for being the first play to emerge from the sub-professional Federal Theatre as a regular Broadway production. There its distinction ends, for in spite or because of extensive revision by Director Antoinette Perry (Strictly Dishonorable) and her daughter Margaret's determined impersonation of a bordello's ex-cashier who gets a pretentious politician's family in and out of several difficulties, the show struck most critics as being stereotyped, strained, spurious...
...opinion denying Snatch's appeal, Justice Alyce says: "Unquestionably Snatch has been engaged in commerce, for no one can deny that he has done something. And precedent is abundant that doing anything is commerce. Thus, cows ranging back and forth over State lines because their owners have neglected to fence them in are engaged in commerce (Thornton v. U. S.). . . . However, Snatch is technical. He says that commerce has to do with trade, business, commercial enterprise, adventure involving profit or loss...
...Snatch claims that a State line cannot be crossed presumptively. ... In law anything may be done presumptively. . . . Since the law does not know that Snatch did not cross the State line, it is perfectly proper to assume that he did. . . . If presumptions of this sort were not permitted district attorneys might be put to considerable trouble to prove their cases. We are not unmindful of certain theoretical difficulties inherent in presuming that State lines have been crossed. For example, it would never do to presume that the United States Steel Corporation is engaged in interstate commerce. Similarly, we could...
...both three-dimensional and, from the spectator's point of view, in true perspective. From front to back, a diorama's figures and objects diminish in size, merging imperceptibly with a curved, painted background. Diorama Corp. is proud of its historical and pictorial accuracy, has done much work for the Smithsonian Institution as well as for such firms as Ford and Sears Roebuck. Its President Edward Heckler Burdick conceived the idea of doing Christ in Gethsemane, to be followed by a half-dozen other Biblical scenes for possible exhibition at the New York World's Fair...