Word: lined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Red, now a Yale freshman, set out to get prestige of his own by stumping Dad on an Information Please question. With millions of radio listeners tuning in, one smart Kieran asked another to give the first line of three poems. Father John muffed Shakespeare's Silvia completely, identified The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (but gummed up the first line), had trouble getting the curfew before the knell in Gray's Elegy. Mused Father John into the microphone in Kieranized Shakespeare : "How sharper than a thankless tooth it is to have a serpent child...
...trick photography are less inexhaustible than its producers supposed. Once the side-splitting spectacle of doors opening without apparent human aid has lost its novelty, the picture's only surprises are occasional droll antics by Actors Young and Burke, and a few scraps of bright dialogue. Best line: Mrs. Topper's comment on Gallic manners: "Too bad the people in America aren't French...
Last week, having labored to level local obstacles and brought all the utilities except big Nebraska Power Co. into line, Banker Myers rejoiced at a milestone which seemed to assure complete success for the "Myers Deal." The Federal Power Commission approved the sale to his clients of the Nebraska part of Iowa-Nebraska Light & Power Co., second biggest in the State, for $20,195,991-a compromise figure considerably higher than FPC's cost valuation but slightly under Iowa-Nebraska's original cost valuation...
Another job ahead for Youth Administrator Aubrey Williams is the training of aviation mechanics in abandoned arsenals, aircraft shops, and school rooms. This is in line with a series of moves to build up personnel reserves and stimulate the aircraft industry, which would be needed in case of war. Said CAA's chairman, Businessman Edward J. Noble, of the student-pilot program: "... A sound measure of national defense . . . sound business for the air industry...
...department, where the legitimacy of his wares apparently was established. He was released, it was reported, after signing a statement, drawn up by Colonel Apted, that he would not show up at Harvard again. This was no reflection on the quality of Goer's goods; it was merely in line with the policy to rid the dormitories of salesman...