Word: lot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When I was Governor of New York, they said I borrowed a lot of money. That wouldn't worry me. If it solved our problems and we were out of trouble, I would say, 'All right, let it go.' But the sin of it is that we have the indebtedness, and at the end of three years we are just where we started...
Most discussed canvas of the lot was Threshing No. 1, showing a straw-hatted farmer hoisting an explosive forkful of wheat from a wagon (see cut). Whether the left arm and the wheat were well or badly painted caused differences of opinion. Critics agreed, though, that the straw hat was a technical masterpiece...
...common brother, is amiable too unless it is a mother with young, wounded or just an old bull "rogue." Only six or seven feet long, it has always been very rare and for that reason badly wanted by zoos. Unfortunately it lays itself open to shooting by doing a lot of cross-country rambling...
Anything Goes (Paramount). Actually, a lot of people beside Cole Porter had a hand in this screen version of last year's No. 1 Broadway musicomedy, but somehow it all adds up to a Cole Porter lyric cast in celluloid, with involved metaphors and polysyllabic rhymes translated into comedy antics and plot convolutions, and set to impudent, lighthearted music. Some of it is music worn thin by 1935's dancing slippers, but some good new ones have been added: Sailor Beware, Moonburn, My Heart...
...details. Actress Douglass, whose heart is obviously in her work, conclusively endears herself to any member of the audience who has a Southern female relative when, faced with the supreme moral problem of her daughter's disgrace, her final judgment is: "Ah think the world would be a lot better off if everybody lived in Louisville...