Word: lot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...being a nice kid personally, is a real showman and a marvelous singer. Heard her do an item, "Chew, Chew-something or other, which brought three encore demands from the crowd solely on the basis of the life that she put into the thing. Eila's singing is a lot like a good "dig" tenor sax player: she sings most of her licks ahead of the beat, so that you get a drive effect which packs power in quantity. Result is that she is just about the back-bone of Chick's band...
Wellesley leads the co-ed picket line with six women in active service. On being questioned, one of the more attractive members of the female contingent charged that "the poor cabbles are ever-burdened with the transportation of Harvard drunks. Something must be done to improve the lot of these poor, set-chauffeuring individuals, and I feel it is up to us Wellesley girls to take the first step in remedying this unconstitutional situation...
...early West, is now doing a good deal better than the white church. In fact on the edge of one out of five typical western county seat towns, a small college has grown up with half a dozen buildings, a stadium, and cars parked all over the lot," he added...
Inordinately ambitious, a weaver of grandiose political dreams, Herr Himmler might find war, if it comes, not to his taste. War might mean the rise once more to power of the old Prussian Army machine and a policeman's lot might not be so important in war as in peace. But war or no war, anything that might happen to eclipse or remove Herr Himmler's aging boss can be expected to be the signal for a dogfight for power between Herren Göring, Goebbels and Himmler. Herr Himmler, the youngest of the lot, does not intend...
...reformer. His potential enemies, from Billiards to Theatre, are catalogued alphabetically in the Federation's offices. Lately one of the Little Giant's files-the one on Gambling-has been particularly crammed. What made Reformer Howard broody was the fact that a lot of this gambling was under church auspices. For the last three years, U. S. churches have raised thousands of dollars by the old-time country fair and carnival game, Bingo (or Beano, or Keno...