Word: fitfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...constantly enlarging campus has been heated successfully with North Dakota lignite. . . . We are indeed proud of the achievements of Mr. Anderson. . . . However, we are also equally proud of the North Dakota lignite coal development in our State. We hasten to assure Mr. Anderson that if one clay he sees fit to return to the fold temporarily, we shall guarantee to make it amply warm for him-with North Dakota lignite...
...attractions were curls, a dimple, the ability to sing and tap dance. Since then she has become a seasoned, skillful actress, capable of reacting properly to all the stimuli normally experienced by the heroines of cinema. The story of Bright Eyes, following the rule for most pictures tailored to fit stars, is important only for the opportunities it gives Shirley Temple: to weep when she hears that her mother has gone to Heaven; to tiptoe away from her nursery when she learns that the couple she lives with do not like her; to chuckle when an aviator (James Dunn...
...oblong, dimly Gothic House of Lords, a furious drama unrolled between two Empire characters each fit to be popped straight into Gilbert & Sullivan. One was the Lord Chief Justice of England, tiny, rolypoly Baron Hewart. The other was the Lord High Chancellor, tall, severe, ascetic Viscount Sankey. Distinctly Gilbertian. with exactly the right lilt, is Lord Sankey's famed remark: "My first brief fetched two guineas-but afterward, roses, roses all the way!" Not since Sullivan set tunes to Trial by Jury has Justice provided a more diverting tale than that told on himself by Lord Sankey...
...live in London. Amid $5,000.000 worth of art in his famed Grosvenor Square house he played host to Edward VII & court until 1915, when he moved to Paris following a divorce from Margarita Armstrong. Credited with the remark that the U. S. was "a hole not fit for a gentleman to live in," he stayed away from it until...
...Maguire's long sleeping brain again functions a little, her mother exclaimed: "I do hope she'll be awake to celebrate her 30th birthday next April 1. Patricia weighed 125 lb. when she went to sleep. Now she weighs about 160 lb. She'll have a fit about that when she wakes...