Word: mans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...customer Hollywood tries hardest to please, according to Author Thorp, is the wife of a man earning more than $1,500, living in a city of more than 50,000 people. Her husband is the movies' average man and from his pockets comes more than half of Hollywood's yearly revenues. To his average wife Hollywood sells dreams of luxury and love more expertly unreal than her own imagination, experience and daring could ever make them. "What the adult American female chiefly asks of the movies is the opportunity to escape by reverie from an existence which...
...crass young lawyer, 6) off-stage troubles in the steel company she has inherited. She marries the lawyer, who is inadequate as a substitute for her first husband, and wins the helpful advice and abiding friendship of the doctor. In the long run she is glad she married the man she did, not sorry she did not marry the man she didn't. And the company trouble comes to a good ending...
When the Romanovs 'came to the throne 300 years ago they were "provincial nobodies." They managed, in their time, to produce three colossal figures (Alexander I, Catherine the Great, Peter the Great), one kind man (Alexander II, who freed the serfs, was killed by a bomb). The rest were monsters, comic grotesques, mental cases, or blank nonentities: calf-eyed Mihaïl, who died of melancholia; Elizabeth, the hard-drinking, nominally virgin queen whose beer-barrel figure enabled her to pass off her pregnancies as "indigestion"; infantile, impotent Peter III and insane Paul, "as ugly and misshapen...
...Tyler Peabody, Jr. '42 of Melrose, was second in the Sophomore competition, and will manage the Jayvee team. Third man in the competition was Richard M. Jackson, also of Chestnut Hill, who will be an associate manager and will also manage the Freshman team next fall. Peabody attended Melrose High, and Jackson is a graduate of Saint Palls...
Post 47 of the American Legion, in a resolution addressed to President Seymour, said that since Browser "been exposed through the Dies Committee as a man definitely linked with Stalin and Russian ideology," he should not be given "the courtesy and protection" of Yale until he has been exonerated of the charges...