Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Powell as Butler Godfrey, the threadbare, unshaven Harvard man whom she picked up off the city dump as the culmination of a scavenger hunt, is the vent to all her immoderate enthusiasm. When the butler's room is about to be searched for missing pearls, she tears through the house like a four-year-old looking for the Christmas tree, deliriously screaming. "Godfrey, Godfrey, hide them if you've got them, the cope are coming!" Later she plunges about in furious joy, convinced that Godfrey loves her because he put her, dressed in evening clothes, into the cold shower...
Powell, smiling, superior, quietly humorous, was far outshone by the impetuous Lombard. Madcap society daughter Lombard suffers from a bitter jealousy of her older sister. Searching for a forgotten man to help beat her sister in a scavenger hunt, Lombard finds Powell living on the city dump. Grateful to him for having helped beat her sister, Lombard adopts Powell as her protege and gives him the position of butler...
...University Hall was modeled for Sculptor Daniel Chester French by onetime (1891-93) U. S. Representative Sherman Hoar of the Class of 1882. Last week the Boston press revealed that the vacant lot in Charlestown, Mass., in which John Harvard is supposedly buried is now being used as a dump...
...original or First Five-Year-Plan involved stupendous imports of foreign machinery to establish a Soviet Economic Base. Foreign money needed to pay for this was got by selling every kind of Russian product abroad at prices exactly low enough to make the sales quick-i. e., "dumping prices." Proudly last week the Gosplan pointed out to Dr. Bogen that repayment of the short-term debts incurred to finance the First Five-Year-Plan has now almost been completed; Bolshevik credit has been sufficiently established to finance additional imports of machinery from Britain, Germany and Czechoslovakia at longterm; and, since...
Taking advantage of the rains, now drenching Ethiopia in earnest, Ethiopians last week set fire to an ammunition dump near Massaua, attacked Dessye in force and even hurled themselves against the capital, Addis Ababa, in a two-day series of suicidal infantry charges against machine guns and light artillery...