Word: growing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...always inventing new dishes; his knowledge of wines was exact, exacting. His hobby was "romance." On account of it he had long ago left a beautiful but too-domestic wife, a too-infantile infant. Just as everything was going nicely, just as his latest flirtation was beginning to grow serious, his grown-up daughter turned up to plague him. At first he thought Lindsay a credit to him: she was not beautiful but she had charm, wit, sophistication, and she was on the verge of a big success in the musi-comedy world. They took to each other on sight...
...eyes turned to Italy last week for exciting news of aeronautics which promised to grow more exciting in the next few weeks...
...cottage to start a baking business with his wife and children, the picture goes into the family affairs of Gabriel Service (Lewis Stone), shows him to be, like most department store owners in the cinema, dignified, harassed and nepotistical. When his children seem bored with his business and times grow harsh, he decides to sell out to a chain store operator. Then his young wife (Benita Hume) leaves him, his children vouch for their interest in the store and he meets old Benton eating his lunch in a little graveyard back of Service's employes' entrance. Benton points...
...world market, cotton, for example, should automatically appreciate by the same amount. By cutting the dollar adrift from gold, the U. S. would be on equal monetary footing with Britain and the 34 other powers which have let their currency slip. Out of such equality might grow an international agreement for a new gold standard for world exchange- but at a lower ratio...
...clubs, lectures, Harvard's golden mean ("Three C's and a D and keep out of the newspapers"), its buildings, traditions, dreams-all these and more Author Weller has pasted up in his college scrapbook. Harvard readers may not like some of his pious preservations, may grow misty-eyed over some. Other readers will admit that whether or not Author Weller's Harvard characters have been gliding to any purpose, their performance, to non-Harvard eyes, has been impressive...