Word: faces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Theodore E. Apstein, legal adviser to The National Divorce Reform League: "The marriage . . . is valid on its face. . . . Andy has two ways out: 1) providing the bride has entered into a previous marriage which is in existence; 2) providing the marriage was performed by an unauthorized person...
...whole of our contemporary public finance is governed and conditioned by our defense spending," explained Sir John. It is this cruel necessity which transforms our budget and increases our borrowing, and makes it necessary to shoulder grievous burdens and face unprecedented totals, without the pressure of which taxpayers might rejoice over a lightening load." Proof of Sir John's words was found in the fact that nearly half ($3,150,000.000) of the great outlay was to go into Britain's rapidly expanding defenses...
...their April 3 broadcast, the day they moved over to CBS after eleven years with NBC, Amos 'n' Andy cooked up a superspecial episode. Andy, long a wary bachelor, let himself and an $800 bankroll be lured to a Harlem altar by a schemestress named Puddin' Face. But just as the preacher said the words "I now pronounce you . . ." two shots broke up the wedding. Next few episodes found Puddin' Face merrily charging gewgaws against Andy's $800, and loyal Amos plaintively wondering whether Puddin' Face really, truly and legally had Andy hooked...
...exquisitely painful as the prolonged probing of a dentist's drill on a bare nerve is Tic Douloureux, or facial neuralgia, a disease which attacks the nerve tract of cheeks, mouth and tongue. Neuralgia spasms seldom last longer than two minutes, often twist a patient's face into a hideous grimace of agony. Usually persons over 40 years old are victims of the disease, and at first attacks may occur no more than twice a year. Later they return several times a day with increasing severity until sufferers long for death as the only relief from their pain...
...clock this afternoon the Yardling ten will face Exeter in one of the toughest matches of their season...