Word: list
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other group of first year students has produced such a high percentage of Dean's List men, Leighton reported, and the percentage of academic dismissals hit an all-time...
...Hollywood, a sculptor named Yucca Salamunich, after carefully considering the subject of legs, was ready to make a generality: "Yunnhh! Hollywood con nects legs with sex. Legs have beauty for other reasons." Specifically, Salamunich had prepared a list of legs he admires...
Retailers' worries were the customers' delights. In Cleveland, a $25 Thanksgiving dinner for eight was thrown in with every refrigerator bought from Sears, Roebuck & Co. In Chicago, washing machines were offered at $50 below list price. Manhattan stores trimmed prices of women's dresses, furs, shoes, gloves, millinery, hosiery from 25% to 50%. Even the carriage trade's Hattie Carnegie, who ordinarily does not stress prices, advertised a clearance sale of hats...
...always, Shaw enjoyed himself. He trotted out a string of British and Irish influencers whom most of the critics had never heard of or never deigned to bother with. But high up on Shaw's eccentric list was eccentric Samuel Butler (1835-1902), novelist and creative evolutionist. "It drives one almost to despair," snapped Shaw, "when one sees so extraordinary a study of English life as Butler's posthumous Way of All Flesh making so little impression that when I produce plays in which Butler's extraordinarily fresh, free, and future-piercing suggestions have an obvious share...
Economist G.D.H. Cole's brief study of Samuel Butler (which is one of a new British list named the English Novelists Series) is, like Butler himself, full of pig-headed notions, but clear, brisk and never dull...