Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week "until Nov. 1," Norway "indefinitely," Denmark "until further notice." Last to go off gold last week was Egypt. In London nebulous resentment at the gold standard, nebulous notions that Depression can somehow be cured by tampering not only with the standard but with gold itself as a monetary medium crystalized at a meeting of prominent British merchants. Chief speaker: Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen. Sir Hugo is tall, staccato, persuasive. As chairman of British American Tobacco Co. Ltd. he has intimate export contact with that half of the world where coin is not gold or gold-backed paper but silver...
...Official System, a one-trick bid signifies an ordinary hand; a two bid signifies a medium strong hand, a game invitation bid; a bid of three, or a two-club bid signifies an extraordinarily strong hand. In the Culbertson System bids of one have the same significance; a two bid signifies an extraordinarily good hand...
...from the little firm Burbank maintained to help finance his experiments. W. Atlee Burpee began his business in 1878. It gained prestige by introducing the sweet pea from England and more prestige by developing new varieties which were shipped back to England. The present Burpee, David, a man of medium height and thinning hair, became president of the company in 1915 after the death of his father. Born in Philadelphia in 1893, he attended Cornell's agricultural college, from which he was called home by his father's illness. During the War he set up sample gardens, encouraged people...
...York Times ("one of the few really distinguished looking men in Washington") is described as supplying his paper with "front" for $25,000 per year. The New York Herald Tribune's Washington news "is inclined to be sensational and trivial." Mark Sullivan has sunk into "a Republican propaganda medium." Clinton Wallace Gilbert "is one of the few nationally known Washington correspondents who has not compromised his personal or professional integrity, never fawned or groveled." The few other reporters who received praise-Messrs. Ross, Anderson, Pearson, Murphy et al.-are, by no great coincidence, members of the Georgetown Group...
There are so many able technicians in Hollywood that even pictures as uninspired as this one are generally built into reasonably inoffensive entertainment, unmarred by the ineptitudes which can make bad plays atrocities. There is nothing distinguished about This Modem Age but, like a medium-priced sedan, it runs rapidly and smoothly along, an inconspicuous mechanical marvel which disgraces no one and will probably make a profit. Joan Crawford's new haircut, which gives the effect of a pale overgrown hedge straggling down the back of her neck, is not as unbecoming as it sounds. Good shots: Joan Crawford...