Word: neatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...McKitterick speeded up research on a hygroscopic agent called diethylene glycol. A hygroscopic agent is what attracts and retains moisture in tobacco. Most cigarets use glycerin. Chemists discovered, however, that when diethylene glycol is burned, unlike glycerin, it does not give off an irritant called acrolein. That was a neat find indeed, and it promptly went into Philip Morris advertising, though Philip Morris claimed that it had been using the agent all along...
...took up this kind of entertaining as a livelihood. Once she tried to operate without bookers, found she could get no girls. Her girls, she said, charged whatever a man would pay, usually $2 to $4. She kept a running total of each one's earnings by punching neat green cards. "If a customer paid $2," she explained, "I'd punch two. If the next one paid $3, I punched five. If the next one paid $4, I punched nine." A card offered as evidence showed that one of her girls had collected $46 between...
Doubtless the most original trait of American cinema is the sly metamorphosis of familiar novels from their printed pages to the screen. Many who would be frightened away by its true-story title will be relieved to know that "I Married a Doctor" is a neat scenarioizing of Sinclair Lewis's "Main Street." Stylized, the plot is of a young woman rich in parts who comes to be the wife of Dr. Kennicott, and must breast all the bigotry of Williamsburg, a mid-western town. She is unfortunate in her open treatment of the men, secures the whole hearted...
Like so many neat flowerbeds, the 43 books of Edith Wharton stand in polite rows that many a ruder gardener of words might envy. Few society women have gone in for such a messy job as professional writing, but even in working dress Edith Wharton is patently grande-dame. To the eyes of the younger generation, her polite and cultivated formality might well seem quaintly behind the times, but for survivors of the pre-War garden age she still has a nostalgic charm. If the stories in her latest book are not quite so cosmopolitan as the title suggests...
...neat, premature perfection of her character appears to extend in all directions. Her teeth fall out on schedule, one by one, and are replaced for working hours by temporary stopgaps. She wears one of these in Captain January. She is expert at such games as checkers, pachisi, casino and "squares"-connecting dots on a piece of paper with straight lines to form boxes. She recently beat Oscar Olsen, a member of the Swedish Senate, at squares twice in succession. She has a doll from every country in the world, each dressed in native costume. On the Fox lot she keeps...