Word: frequenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seeds of destruction of the capitalist system are sown by itself. Prosperity depends on profits, the conversion of profits into capital, the increasing accumulation of that capital. So long as there were outlets for this accumulation, the system managed to get along, despite ups and downs and frequent "cyclical" depressions. The decline of capitalism is the result of old age. Its "historical role" is over. This is owing to the exhaustion of "the long-time factors of expansion"-industrial expansion, creation of new industries, opening up of new land. Stagnation has set in. The forces of production overwhelm the forces...
...down and across the corset so that the garment "gives" with every movement of the body. Lastex, made of latex, the pure essence of rubber and tougher than its compounds, was more practical than the old rubber because it did not lose its elasticity despite long wear and frequent laundering. Thus the two-way stretch allowed corseted women to move about with freedom; the Lastex, carefully moulding the figure, kept the corset fitted snugly to the body...
...Joseph W. Bailey Jr., who had canvassed vigorously against the New Deal, in a victory which was tantamount to reelection. A Congressman for twelve years before his election to the Senate in 1928, Senator Connally wears a broad-brimmed black felt hat, chews gum or tobacco, makes able and frequent speeches in a syrupy drawl...
...Jesus Parade." With a few others, including such well known regulars as Alexander Woollcott and Robert Benchley, that staff has survived the frequent eruptions of its volcanic editor. In addition the last six years have witnessed the parade of 16 "Executive Editors" whom Editor Ross has successively hired in a mad search for System. The procedure is invariable: Ross finds a new genius at a cocktail party or on a newspaper or in an advertising agency, promptly installs him as Executive Editor. Oldtimers on the staff refer to the luckless incumbent as "Jesus." For a few weeks, perhaps...
Otto Dix is a home-loving father of three, a cafe frequenter who hates to talk war. He saves part of his venom for his frequent studies of circuses, trollops, murders, pregnancies. So pungent was his art that Adolf Hitler removed him last year from a lucrative professorship in Dresden's Kunst Akademie. He has, how ever, painted many a kindly portrait of children, one of which is owned by Mrs. John D. Rockefeller...