Word: guess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prospect that more tax-upping will shortly be in order if the Budget is ever to be balanced. The 1932 Revenue Act, based on Treasury estimates and whipped through Congress amid great excitement, has so far failed to do the trick. Last week's best guess was that the Sales Tax would be resurrected in December...
...story of The Old Dark House, as anyone can guess from the title, starts with three motorists ringing a musty doorbell in the hope of finding shelter from a thunderstorm. The door is opened by a butler (Boris Karloff) whose hair is unbrushed but whose face looks as though he had combed it with a threshing machine. In the old dark house, the motorists (Raymond Massey, Gloria Stuart, Melvyn Douglas) are insulted by their hosts, a family of Femms who are living in seclusion to avoid being hanged for murder. While the Femms and their guests are dining on cold...
Informed that his resignation had been accepted, General Glassford remarked: "I guess I'll go out and play some golf." He also welcomed the prospect of having more time for his other hobby: painting murals...
...loose lady who, at a house party which she has caused to be given in her honor, blackmails four of her previous admirers for $500,000. When she is found dead, with a feathered dart in the back of her neck, it seems at first quite easy to guess who did it. Presently it becomes more difficult. A lugubrious old man might have done it because Jenny Wren caused his son to commit suicide. A gaunt spinster (Pauline Frederick) might have done it because her nephew wants to marry Jenny Wren's sister. So might a chipper crook (Ricardo...
...guess mebbee the Bruins instead of getting honey may find themselves stung by a Pesky Crimson B man. But if the Harvard players are Leary of getting Balled up in a Meadow, if they are Fraad-cats, they'll probably get tackled by two little Brown bear brothers and have a merry Chase. Enough of this. I, Hu Flung Huey ocC, predict a 20-14 victory for the great Crimson team today...