Word: lot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...infra-bad walked the boards of the Delta Upsilon chapter house last night, and will display their magnified virtues and vices again for the edification of Friday and Saturday night audiences. "Thorns and Orange Blossoms", this year's selection, is one of the most unrestrained of the lot of unblushing melodramas that evoked tears, hisses, and loud huzzahs from the playgoers of the nineties. Being for this reason one of the worst plays ever written, it becomes ideal material for the histrionics of a group of debonair young...
Yesterday, Wes Fesler wasn't planning to make any changes in the starting lineup with which he will welcome the Ells, though if the team hasn't gotten over their sloppiness, Dicker Grondahl and Dick Wills will probably see a lot of service. But there is little doubt that the Crimson will show the Blue team an exhibition of the best playing they've done all year. Harvard usually does that when they face Yale...
...must remember he cost the British nation a lot of money and they do not choose to see their money go into the pockets of Mrs. Simpson. Foreign newspaper correspondents, especially Americans, have the habit of mixing entirely too much with their own kind, and instead of getting the point of view of the man in the street, they absorb each other's impressions. Inevitably they tend to make a hero of the man or woman who gives them news and this is a great error...
...Marx, whose brothers spent the day working in a picture called A Day at the Races, bet $1,000 on Chanceview. Cinemactress Simone Simon bet $2 on Grand Manitou. Paulette Goddard wore the black hat which she considers lucky. There were 13,000 cars in the 85-acre parking lot...
...trust management-which was not surprising in view of the fact that the investigation's prime purpose was to find out why investors lost upwards of $5,000,000,000 in investment trust securities during Depression. But in 1936 the trust managers demonstrated that they had learned a lot since they took off with ceiling zero in the late 19205. Not only did they mount the witness stand in Washington with penitence and goodwill, but also wrote a good record in their annual reports. In a study of 47 general management trusts, Tri-Continental Corp. last week announced that...