Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...demanded and got holidays for the occasion. There were Landon buttons in the crowds too, because it was evident that regardless of politics all New England was turning out to see the show. It was an unenthusiastic crowd, yet rare was the town in which from two to a dozen women did not faint in the press...
...refused him an injunction against police interference, because 200 hoodlums with rotten eggs and soft tomatoes blocked his way into the radio station where he was to broadcast. Next he went to Tampa where he had just started to speak from a platform in an empty lot when a dozen hoodlums rushed in, knocked down several of his supporters with clubs and pistol butts, picked up the platform from behind, slid Nominee Browder and platform guests off into the dirt...
...Simpson was rumored to have committed the technical adultery required for divorce in England with a young woman nicknamed "Buttercup" at the fashionable resort of Maidenhead. A London florist revealed that the King sends Mrs. Simpson ?5 ($25) worth of long-stemmed red roses per day, or about 15 dozen in summer when they are cheap and five dozen daily in midwinter when they are dear...
...time high in gridiron mirth and a musical that ranks with the season's best. For the radio celebrities, revolving stages and philharmonic orchestras that are current cinemusical trappings, Producer Darryl F. Zanuck has substituted a story that prances like a mustang, half-a-dozen songs with hit possibilities, a cast of capable young troupers who perform their functions with a contagious enjoyment...
...first piece of the first batch listed above gives an acute analysis of the ways and woes of a charming hostess who endeavors to entertain some dozen heterogeneous people at once, and wins by being vague. The next is a grim one: a diagnostic study of a diagnostic man. It shows what happens when a psychiatrist has a love affair. The third snaps itself abruptly to the vaudeville stage and gives us Noel asking his lovely, amazingly gifted partner, Gertrude Lawrence, "Who was that woman I saw you with last night?" The versatility of the pair is so great that...