Word: fifteens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...idea to sit through the even more venerable "The Bride Walks Out"; its completely dated gags and situations go far to point up the timelessness of the Barrie story. It is also interesting as a prematurely exhumed time-capsule of the early '30s, with their long skirts, rectangular automobiles, fifteen-cents-for-the-first-quarter-mile taxicabs, and an unwrinkled and suspiciously flat-chested Barbara Stanwyck making the inevitable Hollywood decision about Career vs. Home...
Last week the bloodguilt fell upon all Gary, although where to lay the bitter assessment was disputed. Fifteen hundred aroused women banded together at seedy Seaman hall one night. They barred their menfolk from the building, resolved to march on City Hall four blocks away where the council was in session. On the way over, clots of men humbly joined them...
...Fifteen centuries ago today, Saint Patrick chased the serpents out of Ireland. Since then, there have been annual commemorations of that worthy event, extending into the wee hours of the morning, at which time the snakes are usually doing the chasing...
...professors from Brown, Bryn Mawr, Cornell, Columbia, Dartmouth, Mt. Holyoke, Smith, and Yale. There is also a French supervisory committee of prominent educators from the Sorbonne and the University of Paris. Sixty-six men and women from Eastern colleges are in Paris working under the plan right now. Fifteen of these are from Yale. They will all receive credit for their degrees...
...took us no more than the customary fifteen minutes to argue our way past the same ticket taker we had to argue our way past for the Annual Flower Show, The Annual Shoe Distributor's Exhibit, and the Annual Coin Collector's and Philatelist's Colloquium. The publicity agent however was a stranger-only the uniform looked familiar. His name was John Cotter and he were a double breasted pin striped number with a hand painted tie. His hat brim was turned...