Word: factful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like his predecessors, Kelley and Tunis, Dave Egan has confused fact with fancy. And his inevitable conclusion that Harvard turn pro is as distasteful as his purposeful misstatements of the truth...
...dull dinner-party in an Ohio town, gets hurt, and has to stay on in the house for weeks, the play's wit is as gleamingly cutthroat as its antics are gorgeously custard-pie. The identity of the lecturer is as open a secret as the fact that George Eliot was a woman. Lecturer Sheridan Whiteside (Monty Woolley) is an unexpurgated version of Alexander Woollcott, who has been a friend of the authors' as long as he has been a legend of the literary world. They originally created Sheridan Whiteside as a part for Woollcott. He refused...
...problem that has gone so long unsolved that many people doubt whether it can ever be solved. FORTUNE recently set its staff to the job of examining this unpromising problem and this week in its November issue comes to the conclusion that there is a solution, in fact that there is no good reason why farmers should get as little as 3? a quart for milk, or the public should have...
...fact that store distribution is much cheaper than home delivery has been established in many practical cases. Examples: Washington, D. C.'s Highland Farms sold milk through a chain of stations at 3? under the established 14? price and netted $75,000 in one year on a $100,000 investment. Safeway Stores' cost of delivering milk (including pasteurization, wages, depreciation, etc.) from farm to store customer through its 18-town Pacific Coast chain came to 3? a quart. Safeway complains that in many communities it would like to sell milk several cents cheaper than the law allows...
Francis Iles, who as Anthony Berkeley writes detective fiction, is also known to U. S. readers as the author of two much-admired psychological murder stories, Before the Fact and Malice Aforethought...