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Heaman added, however, that things were "very uncertain." Despite the rising cost of food," he said, "the University will endeavor to meet costs at the present rate." The present rate is $14.50, having been raised from $14.00 last winter...
...never considered myself necessarily an actress. I've always felt I might do something else one day -something in which I won't be personally so prominent. And it will be something where I don't have to try to sell myself, which is a humiliating endeavor, although very well paid. I've always had a strange and strong dream that if I stopped and went back to Hartford, I wouldn't remember a thing about my acting career." She paused meditatively, and added: "Not one damn thing...
...would as soon go for a Sunday evening stroll around Walton Heath with a grasshopper as try and work with Northcliffe." When Lloyd George was reelected, Northcliffe blamed Editor Dawson for not fighting him vigorously enough. "I beg you to do either one of two things," Northcliffe wrote Dawson, "endeavor to see eye to eye with me, or to relinquish your position." Then Northcliffe fired him, saying: "Parting with poor Robin is a personal grief to me," but he was a "child in the hands of skilled intriguers...
...ordinary shoes, and those who must now pay $7 for a wig will not have to pay over the months for haircuts. As for charging $2.80 for abdominal belts, "so far as women are concerned, this belt frequently takes the place of a generally worn garment by which they endeavor to conceal their inches and hold up their stockings," and which usually costs a good deal more...
...Constitution. He fair-dealed history, thus: "There are fewer poor people and more well-to-do people in this country now than ever before . . . This great record of progress is the result of our . . . Fair Deal . . ." The President, in closing, hoped the youngsters would carry on the high endeavor...