Word: much
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sack suits, travelling dresses. When the star-spangled strains had subsided, Comrade Poliayukov, president of the Russian-American Trading Corporation, rose beaming at the head of the speaker's table and boomed: "Welcome to Soviet Russia. While you are here you are invited to partake of as much vodka and caviar as you like...
Continuing to satisfy readers Max Annenberg gets, and new advertisers James O'Shaughnessy plans to get, will be Publisher Patterson. Since the day Liberty started, the Patterson eye has read, the Patterson hand has personally okayed every story, every article that has gone into his magazine, in much the same manner that his grandfather, the late great Publisher Joseph Medill, had put "J. M. Must" in blue pencil on every news story that appeared in his Tribune years...
Said he: "I've accepted a job as associate editor of the New York Mirror [tabloid Graphic rival]. My main job will be to conduct a daily column called 'Now' dealing with world affairs. It will be much on the order of Arthur Brisbane's 'Today' except that I hope to make it more satirical and intimate. My new salary will be much larger than what I received from the Graphic...
...believes that laziness accounts for most failures. Last week he asked his school board to evaluate a high school education, suggested $480, or $30 per course. He would have students who repeat courses pay $30 per repetition. Thus, he said, "no pupil could complain since each ... would have as much money spent on him as any other...
...takes his place on the tightrope. Dangerous Curves employs Solution No. 2. Clara Bow gets the kiss in the fadeout. She is a better actress than her usual It-girl role would lead you to expect, but in most of her scenes she is not trying to act so much as to suggest, rather over-consciously, how "cute" she is. Best shot: Kay Francis in front of a bedroom door...