Word: lots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Just another of your critics who make a lot of noise and say nothing...
...backers would seek appropriations of $1,500,000 per annum to support the Secretary of Education, to conduct the pedagogical research and advisory work now performed by the Bureau of Education in the Department of the Interior. The assembly unanimously adopted a report by investigators into the lot of the superannuated school teacher. What she dreads most is a lonely old age. To provide "companionship to prevent loneliness and grief" the Association will conduct a campaign to raise money for teacher homes...
...From Scot and Lot, a phrase common in the records of English medieval boroughs, applied to those householders who were assessed to any payment (such as tallage, aid etc.) made by the borough for local or national purposes...
...brightly painted scenery, much music, several dances. These were hastily stuffed into an English revue which Albert de Courville was quietly concocting. The curious hybrid shook itself rapidly together and appeared as a most amusing creature. Sketches from London served most of the laughter, and there was a lot. Chorus girls from the U. S. did most of the Charlestons, of which there were many. There were 34 scenes, with a noticeable absence of nudity. Best of all was Morris Harvey, rotund, dignified comedian from England, who can be funny and behave himself simultaneously...
...those Harvard men who have lot yet perused "The Harvard Mother Goose. All Undergraduate Parody," as well as for the public at large, the WBZ Radio Station will broadcast tonight at 10.30 a reading of this latest collegiate wit. Frederick deWolf Pingree, ocC.. of Brookline, the author of the book, will recate his satirical verses and be accompanied by Mr. Clair Leonard, Harvard instructor and planist, whose ability for extempore musical composition has already been demonstrated to the radio public. Mr. Leonard will play humorous improvisations of the Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes music which is regarded as the classic...