Word: growed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Otto Grow: "Ef I kin get uh chanst to duck when me boss ain't lookin', I'll be there. Ya can't tell me they're goin' to play baseball alla time...
...analogy is that there are probations and probations, and that some emanate from college offices and others from more worldly sources. Up to this time "Pro" has had only one connotation in academic circles. But times have changed, and cloisters have been temporarily uncloistered and definitions grow ominous and inclusive...
...last item in the account of the trial is the court's advice to the students: "You will refrain from molesting policemen and, as you grow up to be professors, you will refrain from attacking the courts and the police". Who shall forbid stern Justice from her lighter moments? A humorous touch gaily concludes a mass of legality. It makes little difference whether or not the reference is applicable, or even well chosen. One ceases to quibble when one hears the welcome notes of "Case dismissed...
...originality to wear clothes like an inhabitant of the gopher prairies, to make Unter den Linden look like Main Street and elect a Babbitt Mayor of the Rue de la Paix. The English language is revered over here as Latin was in the Middle Ages. . . . America must not grow too proud. After all, we are a great country, but not a great people. And everything was there to make America a great country, so God did it, not ourselves...
...Chilean ambassador to the United States cannot seem to fall in with the traditions of the North American film at all. He rather objects, for instance, to the idea that all children from south of the Rio Grande grow up to be craven desperadoes to be slaughtered or knocked out by iron-fisted vigilantes with curly hair, alleged Anglo-Saxon ancestry, and IT. He has a sort of a case, perhaps. But these Latins never seem to have a proper sense of good, clean fun and don't understand what an important and necessary part they play in film land...