Word: objection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strong man, she a little weak woman. Thus she gets proposals of various kinds from a bachelor, a married man too much in love with his busy literary wife, and a theatrical producer. For two acts she fills their pipes, leans against their knees, tells them her sole object in life is to take care of a big baby who wants to be taken care of, nib- bles at food in public, wolfs it in private, conspicuously weeps, sniffles, gasps, coos, flits and flutters. Having kept three men simultaneously in the air. she nearly breaks up the married...
...Association decided to forget his years, to woo America in the name of silk. With seven fellow ambassadors he landed at San Francisco four weeks ago. All were clad from head to foot in silk-silk suits, silk shirts, silk shorts, silk socks, silk everything save shoes. Their chief object was to persuade U. S. males to wear suits of heavy silk, rlbbed weaves, diagonals, failles (which at present prices could be made for $40 to $50 apiece), thereby to open a new market for Japan silk...
...other socialite young businessmen. They formed Federal Broadcasting Corp. to operate station WMCA in New York City, hoped to form a chain of eleven stations extending as far west as St. Louis. President of the company is John T. Adams, former associate of Donald Flamm, owner of the station. Object : to make a good thing out of the boom in radio advertising expected to follow Recovery...
...this may be that the Lowell regime was not as stuffy, narrow-minded, and conservative as the wiseacres tend to make out. President Lowell himself declared that he preferred to be called a conservative because he could then be as progressive as he like, and no one could object; As far as personal tastes are concerned, he was as well acquainted with the subway as Mr. Conant...
...chill grey waters south of Bear Island, which lies along the track of the Amundsen route, sent reports to Tromso which, if investigation bears them out, will enable Norwegians at least to mark with a reverent X the spot where their great explorer died. One report said a "heavy object'' brought up in a net had been identified as part of the plane, but had broken through the net and been lost again. The Norwegian Government wondered whether other identifiable wreckage had been found, ordered an investigation, stood ready to send the Arctic ship Fridtjof Nansen promptly...