Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...SALESMAN to His Majesty (after Queen Elizabeth has purchased three dozen pairs of silk stockings and walked on a short distance) : "May I show you these stockings, sir? Now you'll know them when the bill comes in. Thank...
Eighteen Cubans, six small girls, and two dozen Princetonians docked on the Eastern Steamship Liner "St. John" yesterday morning at 8 o'clock...
...Cubans and the six small girls debarked and the two dozen Princetonians began to arise. J. Douglas Brown, professor of Economics at Princeton, was up, and, armed with a newspaper and without breakfast, boarded the special bus. An hour and a half later he was still alone in the 40 passenger bus behind his ninth paper...
...official entourage was Joseph Lo Pa Hong, rich Chinese Catholic charitarian of Shanghai, and a Solemn High Mass on the Luneta which drew 40,000 women was celebrated by Bishop Januarius Hayasaki of Nagasaki, Japan. Altogether there went to Manila a score of Oriental prelates as well as a dozen U. S. bishops and archbishops...
...manages to lend her ridiculous role dignity. Dick Powell gives another of his exalted-shoe-clerk performances. Alice Faye, in a part which requires only that she act natural, comes off best. What makes On the Avenue fun is not the antics of this troubled triangle, but the half-dozen high-spots sprinkled through the picture, usually with excellent accompanying melodies by Irving Berlin. Samples: Dick Powell hunting for The Girl on the Police Gazette, Madeleine Carroll and Dick Powell chivying a bean-wagon proprietor (Billy Gilbert), Alice Faye's deliciously cool contralto singing This Year's Kisses...