Word: kenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rigid. Like Marie Dressier and Polly Moran, Edna Mae Oliver is an oldtime actress who, with the disappearance of exterior attractions, has had ample time to perfect her comedy technique. Among other members of the jury are Kitty Kelly, who uses the expression "Go milk a duck," and Ken Murray as a real estate salesman...
While the competitive system seems to set mere men at the whim of imponderable elements beyond their ken or control and give free rein to huge competing combines that must, by their very nature, reach the point of saturation, obsolescence, and final destruction, a survey of present day democracy gives pause to those who wish to believe that in public ownership or control there lies a solution for periodic industrial collapse. Legislatures composed of individuals apparently forced to spend as much as possible for the delight of local constituents make the trusteeship of common welfare a grisly political farce...
...needy families in New York City. Director of the plan is Wilton Lloyd-Smith, 37, keen, aggressive law partner in the firm of Cotton, Franklin, Wright & Gordon. Wartime field-artilleryman, Director Lloyd-Smith now devotes a large part of his surplus energy to big-game hunting. His Labrador retriever, "Ken-jockety Jim," won the Open and Best of Breed ribbons at last month's Westminster Kennel Club show. His wife, Marjorie, is the daughter of Arthur Henry Fleming, whose generous contributions helped to bring California Institute of Technology into being. In announcing his plan, Director Lloyd-Smith made public...
...awarded most of the saddle class prizes to Kentucky-bred horses, a procedure that stirs lively opposition in devotees of the British thoroughbred strain, which used to win. Thoroughbreds are built for racing and hunting as well as show. Slightly crossed with standard-bred horses, they make excellent saddlers. Ken-tucky-bred horses have been fined down to a mettlesome nervousness highly impressive in the ring but unsuited, so their critics claim, to hardier exercise. Judges last week overlooked Antonio P. Fachiri's imported thoroughbred Rosewater, gave the Biltmore Challenge Cup, for three-gaited saddle horses suitable for park...
...best intersectional game of the week, Ken Meenan, Northwestern's 190-lb. sophomore halfback, tore wide holes in a University of California, Los Angeles, line, scored two of the three touchdowns that gave Northwestern the game by a score -19 to 0-which did not do justice to Northwestern superiority...