Word: heights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When Hollywood revived musical films three years ago, dancing was monopolized by Director Busby Berkely and his imitators. The height of their inventions was reached in Footlight Parade, which showed a chorus massed to represent the U. S. flag. When Dancer Fred Astaire first appeared in Hollywood, he was deemed too lacking in acting ability and sex appeal to do more than a momentary turn in Dancing Lady, for which Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer borrowed him from RKO. That bit made Astaire one of the five biggest box-office names in the industry. Teamed with Ginger Rogers?an almost equally capable...
...middle part of pituitary gland contains Vitamin C (found in oranges, lemons, tomatoes, peppers, spinach) in more concentrated form than any plant or other animal tissue. The fore part of the pituitary, the adrenals and the ovaries also contain heavy Vitamin C concentrations. Concentration in the ovary reaches its height as the ovum ripens. That relation suggested to Drs. Click & Biskind that Vitamin C may be involved in the formation of sex hormones...
...Enzo Fiermonte arrived to visit her sister, Mrs. Lorillard Spencer. Mrs. Amos Tuck French dropped in on her sister, Mrs. Louis L. Lorillard. Du Ponts, Ripleys, Lippincotts arrived aboard their yachts; the Edris, Elfreda, Fox, Orthea, Kikoko, Oceanic all dropped anchor on a single day. Newport was enjoying the height of its Social Season. And last week it also elected a new Mayor...
Almost every woman I know wears a shoe size between six and eight. I could name 20 personable young women, average height and slender, whose feet couldn't be fitted in less than a six and a half. Even a 5-ft., 90-pounder wears size five...
...just a little of what I am talking about. In the first place, to single out any one poet to whom to apply the title "Poetaster," is letting prejudice override fairness entirely. In the second place, to apply that term to such a poet as Joseph Auslander is the height of the ridiculous. . . . The great majority of us are minor poets, but "poetaster," by definition, implies the accusation of "paltry," which, in its turn, is a sneer...