Word: lot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story of how a female movie quiz contest winner from the sticks lures a rebellious male star onto the lot for three harried Hollywood producers will unfold when the new Pi Eta Club musical comedy, "Give, Baby, Give!" is presented Friday and Saturday evenings, March 24, and 25, at the club-houses off Bolyston Street. A formal dance, open to those attending the show, will follow the performance Friday night...
...Capitol police, a body whose opinions on the behavior of statesmen should be intimately informed but is seldom solicited. He had attended several Dies hearings and "didn't think it was fair to let people get up and talk without proper evidence, so I stopped going. A lot of those witnesses were mentally ten years...
...work . . . have an illness that I believe to be incurable. . . . Those of you who have knife-edge pains shooting through you continually, who are unable to eat regularly, who cannot take walks or go to the shows, will understand my plight. . . . Suicide would be preferable to my present lot. . . . What shall...
...Grandfather" was Albert Brisbane (1809-90), a dreamer and schemer of socialist Utopias who inherited all the money he ever needed. Tall, withy, high-strung Seward Brisbane is a lot like him. He quit Harvard after two years "because I couldn't get interested in sitting around drinking with other fellows who had money," later worked briefly and unhappily as a Mirror reporter, spent a year in France. Now he is studying at Manhattan's New School for Social Research, wants to get into politics "on the reforming side." Toward newspaper work he feels an "intense hostility." Reason...
...lady named Sarah A. L. Hardinge. In the 70 years which followed, she and her descendants took out 174 other patents. Mrs. Hardinge's smart son, Hal, for instance, invented a machine which pulverizes ore by feeding it into a whirling drum containing a lot of little steel balls. Many a fortune has been made with it. It became generally known last week that Mrs. Hardinge's smart grandson had added a smart refinement to his father's famed "ball process" of ore reduction...