Word: lot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Italy will get the biggest lot-62. To China go 16. England gets a murderer from Alcatraz. The lone woman on the list, a postal lawbreaker, goes back to Ireland...
...There has been a lot of loose talk about relief agencies closing down in reprisal against men on relief who refused to take jobs. That may make good front-page stuff, but there's no truth in it. . . . We closed the relief rolls in areas now harvesting because we felt that the situation there is approaching the normal. . . . We are emerging from the Depression. Agriculture is leading...
...compulsory pension system; they are "esthetically undesirable." Said Rose Freistater's sturdy father David: "Rose is not fat. She is just big and strong. That fellow Levy said she wasn't pretty. What does he know about it? Why, Rose has always had a fellow. A lot of boys call her up but she's always busy with her teaching...
...much as they disturbed my sleep. I couldn't help be sorry for them. For once they were discontent with domesticity. The boundary of their world had suddenly grown larger than the barn lot, the grove, the garden and the orchard. Somewhere far to the south waited a wide, gray marshland, pale and misty under the warm southern moon-waited the winter haven for all the web-footed creatures...
...getting fired as his secretary prods her into a love avowal, and ends as his fiancee after an interlude with Philip Reed, who symbolizes Princetonian youth. Accent on youth suffers less than most light pieces in translation to the screen, for, although its people sit around and talk a lot, they at least talk with wit. One funny situation occurs when Reed, not recognizing Marshall as his rival in love, begs him, as a playmaker, to devise a dramatic way for him to express his passion for Miss Sidney, and then proceeds to win her by completely disregarding the scene...