Word: following
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other 47 states adopt this program, I predict a new era, heralded by a decline in sex crimes and divorce. Take the mystery out of sex, bring it before the eyes, and indecency flies out the window. Let's all endeavor to see that our own states follow suit...
...year before her run-in with the federal men, Billie grossed close to $50,000, but had nothing left of her lifetime earnings of $250,000. According to her sympathetic federal prosecutor, the "worst type of parasite you can imagine" used to follow her around, charge $100 a dose for narcotics they sold to other addicts for as little as $5. By that time, Billie was looking gaunt, singing badly, and had fallen into the exasperating habit of walking out on waiting audiences without explanation...
Nickel slot-machines that can analyze your personality are just around the corner, now that Eliot D. Chapple '31, former research follow in Psychology, has perfected his Interaction Chronograph...
Cocteau treats the story as the enchantment it is. A film of mystery falls over everything in the film--candelabras are gripped by arms that move, statues' eyes follow the characters people appear and disappear at will. Realism is never allowed to intrude anywhere. Instead a web of visual charms is spun about the tale...
Christopher Fry's "A Phoenix Too Frequent" is about Greece, more or less. It is also about a woman whose husband has died and who wants to follow him to Hades. As she lies in his tomb, a young soldier wanders in. Love follows fast, and by the end of the show the Mrs. sacrifices her husband's body to get her new friend out of an embarrassing shortage...