Word: lots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: You have been making a lot of printers' errors -the Greeks have the real lowdown on how to spell American names to produce the right pronunciation: ΦΟΖ ΜΟŤΒΙΤΟΝ ΝΙΟŤΣ -Fox Movietone News ΚΟΛΝΤΟŤÏΝ -The last name of Mr. Samuel Goldwyn ΜΠΙΛΛŤ ΝΤΟΒ -Billie Dove ΑΛ ΤΖΟΛΣΟΝ -Al Jolson...
...retorted: ''I was shown a statement by a certain Senator better known for his voice than for his statesmanship. Well, all I say to that Senator who intends to oppose anything the Governor of Pennsylvania does is that he reminds me of an antimire* talking to a lot of jumbo elephants. . . . Somebody harbors a fear of a man named Grundy. Some of the criticisms have sounded like the malicious gossip of women. . . . So long as I am governor I intend to uphold our state and I would fail in my duty if I let the threat...
...Russians last week, correspondents reported 12,000 Chinese casualties, lines of demoralized troops fleeing for the interior, looting as they went. In Dalai Nor several hundred terrified coal miners took refuge at the bottom of a shaft before the Soviet advance. Soviet troops stopped the pumps, drowned the lot. Crowds of refugees gathered at all stations along the Chinese Eastern Railway. Special trains chuffed 'back and forth, rushing Chinese citizens to safety, making no effort to collect fares...
...Everything but You," from a box. He then introduces his parents and himself while the cinematic audience applauds vigorously. Belle Baker (Momma Gibson), experienced vaudeville chanteuse, is worth watching except at those moments when, partially choking down her sobs, she sings. Best shot: the baseball game in. the vacant lot behind the theatre...
...pole, which is a bulldog. Either of these explanations is plausible and worth thinking about. Our own belief, however, is that the real explanation is to be found in the atmosphere of gentility which is thought to hang over the Harvard campus. Gentility, to the average American, suggests a lot of sissies: it is quite incompatible with physical prowess. So it is natural that the sports writers should pick Yale, where the boys are supposed to have hair on their chests and to eat red meat. The New York World