Word: lined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were men, nearly 2,000,000 women. Difficulty of interpreting the census-beyond weeding out cards from people who had misunderstood them even more completely than the 20% who, according to a Gallup Poll, thought their replies would bring them jobs-was where to draw the line between regular workers and housewives, sons of families, dependents, retired workers who work only at intervals. Mr. Biggers proposed that his census be further checked by a "cross-sectional enumeration of our test areas" to make his figures more informative...
...Love I'm After" has the virtue of being acted well, but also the fault of occasional banal dialogue. It is too much to expect, of course, that the scenario writers can make each line original as well as humorous; but just the same, you are conscious of the presence of well-wrinkled repartee. It doesn't make Bette Davis look prettier to hear her say: "I'll swallow my pride and go to him"; after the first laugh Leslie Howard seems a bit silly to say, when a knock on the door finds him in the arms...
After the Baccalaureate and the Junior Ushers as the next feature of Commencement in line of fire comes the Senior Class Day Committee. Either the Class Day Committee should have something to do or it should not have something to do. At present it has little to do and does it poorly...
...very small urchin stuck his face around the huge corner of the Widener Library steps. Cars were splashing away in the streets, but inside the Yard traffic consisted only of a few preoccupied pedestrians. The boy surveyed the situation for several minutes, then walked in an absolutely straight line toward a pile of snow in front of the Library. As he bent over to break the crust of ice, he didn't look much higher than the first step. Gradually, bit by bit he succeeded in molding the uncooperative snow into a large ball. Suddenly straightening up, he hurled...
Instead of the usual long line of lovelies, Between the Devil'?, chorus consists of only twelve girls, chosen, says the program, for their "air of distinction and breeding." Like a bed of well-bred poppies, their faces are vivid, beautiful, blank...