Word: mixes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seems to mind except the unfortunate Mrs. Rodney. However, when Janet brings an affinity, Claudia Kitts, to live and work with her as a measure of self-defense and retaliation, Geoffrey introduces Edgar Fuller, who comes from Ohio or Oregon or somewhere to study elocution. The resulting mix-up, due entirely to the super-sensitiveness of the high strung, emotional people involved, is very amusing, and the whole plot is worked out in the cleverest style imaginable. The dialogue is witty and altogether up to date; scarcely a line fails to contribute something in the way of good-humored satire...
...several weeks no receiving station in North America was able to pick up messages from Donald Mix, radio operator of the Bowdoin, Dr. Donald B. MacMillan's boat now in the Arctic (TIME, Sept. 10). Fin- ally an amateur operator at Prince Rupert, B. C., 2,200 miles from Greenland, and later the station of the Calgary (Alberta) Herald, caught faint and fragmentary messages in Morse, reporting the Bowdoin frozen solid in the ice floes of Smith Sound, at about 79° latitude, some 706 miles from the Pole. This is the strait separating northwest Greenland from the large group...
...work of this committee is financed by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., a corporation which knows how to mix altruism and business. The committee is composed of such nationally known sanitarians as Dr. Charles-Edward A. Winslow, Chairman, Dr. Charles V. Chapin, Dr. Haven Emerson, Dr. Donald B. Armstrong, Dr. Wade H. Frost, Dr. Allen W. Freeman, Dr. Lewis R. Thompson...
...Take a quart of synthetic Gordon gin, ten oranges and some ice; mix; get a refined lady drunk and distress her mother; get drunk yourself; when you and the refined lady are thoroughly intoxicated get into the car and zigzag through the streets until you see a woman wheeling a baby carriage from one curb to the other; then step on the gas. The chances are the carriage will have a baby...
...Hillyer," he said, " go out in the pantry and mix up another picture...