Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt and his sister, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt. The President from his armchair called the changes: "Do-see-do! Down the middle and back again! . . . Swing your partner around to the right." Fledgling newshawks clapped in time to Turkey in the Straw, Dixie and Yankee Doodle. Soon a half-dozen reels, more energetic than polished, were in progress in different parts of the East Room. That evening the President stuck to his armchair instead of retiring early as he does at official parties, and the Press went home as usual in high good humor...
...show business. There is no redress for the spectator who is sold a poor evening's diversion. For a good evening, he must pay a large premium above the regular price of the ticket. Box-office employes are notoriously discourteous, seats are old-fashioned and uncomfortable, scarcely a dozen of Manhattan's 76 theatres are air conditioned. Few managers are farsighted enough to try to build audience good will which would ultimately benefit everyone in the business. An exception is Lawrence Langner, one of the directors of the Theatre Guild. At the Astor he proposed that money...
...Stephens graduates, assembled for a special meeting of their alumnae association. Together with 1,500 other guests including Mrs. Ruth Bryan Rohde, they were particularly eager to shake "Daddy's" hand and take tea at his trim Georgian house. By night the campus was aglow with two dozen giant silver candles, for this week James Madison Wood will celebrate his silver jubilee by graduating his 25th Stephens class, whose members will wear silver gowns and mortar boards...
...four major dispensers of drugs in Harvard Square, two refused to sell without prescription and two strongly advised against its use. The two druggists who did makes sales had sold only in the neighborhood of a dozen small bottles of tablets. To date but one student has been sent to the Stillman Infirmary because of an overdosage...
...another characteristic of young men's verse: an ineptitude with, and reliance upon, adjectives. Yet his average is high, and his best poems are those that are consistently good; his unevenness is confined mostly to the shorter lyrics. He is at his best in the sonnet -- there are a dozen that are really good...