Word: lot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attitude toward the Yale game is concerned, this is a typical Harvard grid season. All will be forgiven and forgotten, all except the 34-6 Princeton trouncing, if the Elis are taken into camp: A whole lot of accounts can be gloriously settled by defeating Clint Frank and his cohorts this Saturday, and every single person connected with the Varsity squad, from Dick Harlow to the Freshman managerial candidates, are keenly aware of every one. To list just a few: Harlow hasn't seen a Yale victory since his arrival in Cambridge, there hasn't been a Yale victory since...
...catch up with cotton, but by that time it's going to be too late to help the tenant farmer. . . . What it all adds up to is that cotton has ruined ten million people living in the cotton States, and it's going to ruin a lot more before it's through. . . . Some nights I can't sleep at all for lying awake wondering what's go- ing to happen...
...camp meetings, Chain gangs, political rallies; of a huge-columned mansion porch, with a poor-white woman and her child sitting on one of the broad stone steps. "I don't know what ever happened to the family that built this house before the War. A lot of families live here now. My husband and me moved in and get two rooms for five dollars a month...
...proud of a lot of things. He's proud of his son Keenan, who is now playing with the "Room Service" company. He's proud of Mrs. Wynn who used to be "Miss America." He's proud of his comfortable cruiser, the "Sea-wynn." In a week "Hooray for What?" will go to New York, and everyone is working under strain including...
Unlike most comedians today, Ed Wynn writes a lot of his own lines. As a "student and analyzer" of humor he has developed his giggle, his high voice, his lisp. The show puts Ed's type of humor in effective contrast with the serious undercurrent of anti-war sentiment. On the one hand, in one act, a score of dazzling chorines dance gracefully with their backs always to the audience. They wear sweeping, transparent costumes. The music plays on, the dance becomes more graceful, the rhythm and movement speed up; finally the climax of the dance is reached and suddenly...