Word: flock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...omitted heating facilities from the second floor of his Bronxville, N.Y. home because he believes people should sleep in cold rooms. As economist, he attended the famous dinner at which Dr. William A. Wirt later said he had heard that Roosevelt was a U.S. Kerensky and that a flock of Reds were waiting to take over the Government; then, with a series of 25? and 50? pamphlets (Brass Tacks, Uncommon Sense, Waste), of which he has sold over 1,000,000 copies, he proved himself a persuasive, new-fangled economist, but no Red. At present he works for the National...
From Texas and Tennessee, California and Connecticut, Indiana and Iowa, from nearly every state 1000 Freshmen are preparing to flock into Cambridge on Friday, September 23 and register as the Class...
...Take It With You, Screenwriter Robert Riskin's adaptation of the smash hit play by Moss Hart & George S. Kaufman, for which Columbia's President Harry Cohn last year paid a record price of $200,000. By the end of June, with a new flock of birds added to a cast which already included such rarities as Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold, Donald Meek, Spring Byington and Mischa Auer, shooting on the picture ended and 329,000 feet of film were sent to the cutting room. A finished feature picture contains 8,000. By last...
...mess of pottage for which Esau-in-the-Mass would exchange his birthright; it's the sheep's clothing enabling the wolf to slit the throats of the flock; it's a Nefarious Device to Destroy a Nation; it's the Nutty Dream of the alchemist, the Nebulous Desire of the marijuana victim; it's a pain in the neck and a sword in the heart...
When the semi-annual report was issued, it supported the board chairman's optimism. In the most successful six months of its history, Bank of America shattered a flock of previous records: capital funds were up $4,963,000 to $112,231,000; deposits totaled $1,357,778,000, $77,058,000 increase over June 30, 1937; total resources were $1,498,527,000, compared with 1938's $1,415,559,000. Half-year earnings of $12,321,000 beat last year's first six months...