Word: lot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This year there's bound to be a lot of competition among those low on the list, with all trying to improve...
...hard-boiled father, after killing a man in a riot spent the rest of his life in prison at hard labor for manslaughter. His wife was accused some years ago by Communist newsorgans of having been, during the War, one of those hard-boiled women who made easier the lot of soldiers, and in her grief at this accusation Mme Salengro died of heart disease. The Communists, having joined with the Socialists to make possible the Popular Front Cabinet of Premier Blum, later turned from foes of Socialist Salengro into friends, but he found other foes. Ever since last August...
...strike is all right for down in Utah, but it's a lot colder up north here, and after...
Fortnight ago The New Yorker discovered a family of three who had moved out of a $125-a-month apartment in mid-Manhattan, taken to living in their two-room trailer jacked up in a Broadway parking lot for $25 a month. First such case to make news in dense New York City, this was only an inkling of a problem that is vexing local authorities and real-estate owners all over...
Unfortunately director Leroy devotes a lot of film to developing this profusion of plot, and the impact of the central idea is lost. Anthony is a tragic figure hounded by misfortune. He is unable to take his bride to Havana because a letter she leaves him is blown away by the wind. Business conditions force him to spend many years in Africa while he loses touch with his wife. When the lovers are finally united she has become so compromised in court intrigue and gossip that she cannot join him in America. The great ambition of the orphan...