Word: funs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make fun of us because we try to step up production of eggs per hen or milk per cow? We have to, unless we want to make debts-and is it not more honorable for a poor man to work hard and to be saving, rather than borrow from his neighbors...
...Labor. White-topped, lively Mr. Whitney runs his rich Brotherhood with iron hand, vehemently opposes A. F. of L.'s proposed Wagner Act amendments, has no great love for David Robertson whom John Lewis also suggested for the biggest job U. S. Labor could offer. For fun Trainman Whitney keeps deer, rabbits, pigeons, a raccoon, lovebirds, canaries and pheasants, reads Tennyson, deluges the press with polished expositions of his views. Last week in Cleveland he agreed with C. I. 0. that jurisdictional rows should be settled after reunion, said he might "go along" with John Lewis' Congress...
...picks out a girl with whom he would like to dance, hooks her partner's arm with the umbrella, and whirls away with the girl, leaving the umbrella on the arm of the victim. The dispossessed dancer then repeats the process. French couples enjoyed the Hitleresque fun of giving the man with the umbrella the runaround, leaving him embarrassed and puzzled...
...TIME, June 13). A few weeks before the deadline this year, he confided, "I went skiing up at Quebec, and to hell with it." He got back in time to help Friends James and Rapson get their entry in just under the wire, because "competitions are so much fun...
...almost all significance. What might have been a tour de force jumps so fast from one thing to another as to be a non sequitur de force. Often good theatre, it is never good drama, just as Welles's portrayal of the fat knight is often good fun but seldom good Falstaff. Played on a twelve-part revolving stage that keeps circling like a Lazy Susan on a breakfast table, Five Kings is fatally shorn of all stage illusion...