Word: following
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much concern. Were it true?we'd take it and like it. But, since it so happens that the number of cases of infantile paralysis in this area is below the average, and there are absolutely no indications of a spread, it would appear only right that you follow up your last story with a statement showing the true state of affairs, and thus relieve us of an appearance of epidemic which cannot but harm us as we enter what should be our best tourist season in many years...
...Relief man. a tall, gentle, tweedy, eminently useful citizen, noted for his personal integrity, his whole-souled devotion to his job and to his chief Harry Hopkins. Last week it became Aubrey Williams' duty to see that other U. S. youngsters should not have to follow his own rocky road to success...
...Arias' gratification at last week's victory was not tempered by the fact that the rent money will never get nearer Panama than Manhattan since the canal rent is pledged to pay U. S. holders of Panama bonds. President Arias has refused to follow Franklin Roosevelt in one respect: he has been a strict budget-balancer and the rent money will help even if it never reaches home. Lest, however, any U. S. citizen profit by his Government's keeping its word, Panama immediately demanded that its U. S. creditors accept 4% instead...
...Sonotone Theatre (cinemansion for the hard-of-hearing) one day last week. On its bare stage, students were singing opera to the accompaniment of a grand piano. Restlessly, ceaselessly between the stage and the aisles moved a rusty-blonde woman in white sports dress, white low-heeled shoes. She followed the singers about, pushing them, prompting them, gesturing at them, bursting occasionally into song or husky speech. She cried at the confused pianist: "Piano, piano, don't sprint! Follow the singer!'' She brusquely interrupted arias and duets: "Très pianissimo. . . . But, my dear, you are folle...
...Vienna reports circulated that Dowager Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians would follow the example of her dead husband's sister, Princess Josephine von Hohenzollern, enter a Catholic convent...