Word: handedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...controversy was "Fair Enough," which in addition to being the title of Westbrook Pegler's daily column, appears to be the title of both the Pudding show and the Columbia Varsity production. Southern thespians claimed to have released their title on December 20, whereas the first Hasty Pudding press hand out was dated February...
...rooms in that ungainly, unfinished and unfilled neoclassic edifice sufficed to hold examples of almost all of Blake's work. No foreign loans were on hand because, alone among English artists of the first rank, Blake could be represented completely by loans from U. S. collections. Philadelphians were gracefully assured of Blake's greatness in a catalogue introduction by Book-bibber A. (for Alfred) Edward Newton...
...year-old Shoeman Jarman, a Baptist deacon, felt unchristian making so much money and also found the Carters, though good folk, not devout enough. One day he went alone to Franklin, a tiny town 18 miles south of Nashville, rented a hotel room. All day long, Bible in hand, he communed with the Almighty. When he emerged he was convinced that it was God's will that he form his own shoe factory and run it along Christian lines...
Quietly, persistently, depositors appeared at the bank's main office and five branches, demanded their money. In three days the bank dished out $2,179,280. N. J. Title Guarantee & Trust still had over a million in cash on hand, but it did not open for business again. With $21,500,000 in deposits still on its books, it was the biggest bank failure in five years. Reason: under Boss Frank Hague, Jersey City's tax rate on real estate is the highest in the U. S. and the bank's assets were frozen with...
...other hand, The Green Fool, the autobiography of a sort of Irish Jesse Stuart, is one of the most plum-Irish volumes in a month of Sundays. Born in Mucker (corrupted Gaelic for "good pig-raising place"), County Monaghan, Patrick Kavanagh was "a bit of a lazybones, a bit of a liar and a bit of a rogue." He quit school at 12, worked on farms, joined the Irish Republican Army, learned poaching and desultory banditry, went to all the weddings, wakes, funerals, became highly learned in Mucker legend, superstitions, gossip, cunning...