Word: lot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Talk of the Town" the sophisticated New Yorker was skeptical of Mrs. Nieman's gift: "She has picked the wrong kind of people to go to Harvard-reporters, editorial writers, special writers. . . . It is the publishers who hold back a newspaper. . . . Because publishers want to make a lot of money so that their widows can leave a million dollars to send somebody back to Harvard. Hearst went to Harvard, and he couldn't elevate a standard if it was rigged up with pulleys...
...Jack Smiley, who wrote a column for Screwball's paper ('the Daily Snooze') until he got too good and met the fate of all who dare make the Screwball look like what he is-a five-letter word rhyming with drowsy. After putting in a lot of research work on it, Smiley turned in a story on a prominent prize fighter, which Screwball thought too good to use in his own paper. So he held it out, sold it to a magazine and pocketed the proceeds...
...Invisible Menace (Warner Bros.) involves Boris Karloff and a job lot of studio doughboys in a murder mystery in a U. S. arsenal. Unfortunately for the film, erstwhile Bogeyman Karloff is not the menace; fortunately, he is not invisible either...
...Motors fiddles, according to Boss Kettering. Said he, opening the new plant: "You would not buy a Stradivarius violin and give it to a man to play in Carnegie Hall the same night. We have got a good fiddle, we know that, but we have got to do a lot of practicing...
...causing comment these days, although there may be some persons a bit concerned about bluebooks, as yet. During the past week, however, both President Conant and Dean Hudunt, of the Graduate School of Design, saw fit to recapitulate their activities of the past year. They both had a lot to say on several subjects, but it is most interesting to note that on one point their thought is closely parallel...