Word: employs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...producers. These Hollywood moguls obviously feel that it would reflect no glory on them to let Joan Crawford dominate a scene prepared by some British author-- they must do something to show that Hollywood's money is speaking. So they harp on the title of the show, "Rain", and employ it in the manner of a theme song. To think of the amount of worth-while atmosphere created in the play by keeping the 6000 horsepower rain-making machines going at top speed all the time, is essentially, to laugh. It rains so hard during much of the film that...
Still careful never to employ so coarse a word as "legs," Manchester's inimitable Guardian published recently the following despatch, dated not from "London" but meticulously from "Fleet Street" in London...
...indeed, is the striking contrast that this, one the whole well stitched and cogent pronouncement presents to the feverish in discrimination which has distinguished the press and governmental agencies in their dealings with the case. The unreasoning outburst, all too characteristic of American political opinions, has seen fit to employ the terms "red" and "radical" to denote all political extremists. Possibly the confusion is justified, but to the average onlooker it appears founded on hysteria, not upon any understanding of party demarcations. It is a sad commentary or a great portion of the American press that, instead of educating...
Governor: Don't you think it would have been part of your duty as Mayor to find out as to the propriety of these four doctors continuing in the employ of the city...
...area twelve times the size of the U. S. To acquire title to cut-over and abandoned land on any such scale would, he insisted, "disorganize counties, destroy taxation units, close schools and roads . . . throw more people out of their homes than the New York Governor could employ." According to Secretary Hyde the Roosevelt plan would cost $2,000,000,000, provide work for only 27,900 and break the market on forest products to "Nothing flat...