Word: isn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...isn't everyone who can accomplish his purpose by taking a vacation and keeping his mouth shut...
...Senate floor, North Carolina's Josiah Bailey used the immediate necessity of dealing with taxation as grounds for postponing consideration of antilynching. Said he of the undistributed profits tax, "Let's repeal it today. . . . Even the President says it isn't working. ..." Aware that any plan to do anything about taxation must originate in the House, enthusiastic Senator Bailey proposed that the Senate adopt a resolution "to repeal this tax just as soon as we get something from the House to which we can attach a repealer...
There was no substitute for Handsome Dan on Saturday and Yale ingenuity was unable to make one up. Ducky Pond isn't so keen on mascots anyway, getting mildly irascible during last year's Princeton game when a bulldog that looked remarkably like his own was aired in the Palmer Stadium before the Princeton ganie. It was learned that it belonged to Ed Leader, Yale's crew mentor, and, at that, the score was too close for any degree of comfort...
...sugary as Shirley, and has more to offer than a round face and big eyes. Her voice, accompanied by the muscular hands, waving mane, and symphonic orchestra of Leopold Stowkowski, is at times actually thrilling, but always tried a little beyond its range. Her acting, when she isn't singing, compares favorably with that of her Hollywood contemporaries, although little "nous ne savons quois" here and there point to over directing...
...just too bad every seat isn't on the 50-yard stripe...