Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shopping in Cannes without causing a crowd to collect. She ate her Christmas dinner not in the villa of her friends Mr. & Mrs. Herman Livingston Rogers but with her famed chaperon Aunt Bessie in a Cannes hotel. Greatest ambition of the Woman of the Year seemed to be to drop from world publicity's most glaring spotlight to utter oblivion, the perfect 1937 exit for the Woman...
...further sign of returning prosperity, the report noted a decline in alumni registration of jobs and a corresponding drop in alumni placements from 106 last year to 79 this year...
...talking with some educational experts, I find that they envision a future requirement of something in the order of 15,000 stations to serve the 127,000 school districts in this country alone. . . . The present radio spectrum from ten to 30,000 kilocycles would be a mere 'drop in the bucket' in the solution of the educational radio problem...
Once the audience has overcome its inclination to wince whenever Comedian Whitehead opens his mouth, O Say Can You Sing? has some genuinely entertaining moments. Most professional episode is a ballet called "Renaissance," ably danced by talented and personable Grace & Kurt Graff. A little chocolate drop named Baby Marie Brown steals the first act finale, Grandma's Goin' to Town, by singing and dancing disguised as a midget mammy. The ingenue role is performed by Grace Herbert, a good-looking local night club entertainer, who delivers some of Composer Phil Charig's imperative tunes, among the best...
...this moment, however, Mr. Oswaldo Aranha, who ordinarily resides in Washington, D. C. and who as the Ambassador of Brazil is a constant professional acquaintance of the Secretary of State, sprang to his feet. His unanswerable argument was that if at a Conference one delegate can ask everyone to drop everything and vote his measure, then so can every other delegate. To meet this unpleasant fact of life, conferences many years ago invented committees to steer them. It was thus the fate of the Hull Pillars this week to be steered back to the steering committee. The Secretary of State...