Word: palmful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made an increasing number of sleazy, two-bit pictures-known as "quota quickies"-had pandered them at bargain prices ($10,000 to $25,000) to Hollywood, to be used as quota films. British audiences hissed and jeered them, and exhibitors, forced by law to show them, tried to palm them off at hours when their theatres were practically empty. Crawling with quota quickies, the British industry got a bad name at home and abroad. The mushroom growth of British films which had followed the promising early years of the ten-year plan began to wither. When the 1927 quota...
Engaged. George Fisher Baker 3rd, banker son of the late great banker son of the late great banker; to Frances Drexel Munn, Philadelphia socialite, descendant of Biddies, Drexels, Astors, Munns; in Palm Beach...
...business done, observed with customary enthusiasm: "Fifty million dollars worth of building will feel the steam shovels Monday morning!" FHA Administrator McDonald, a onetime motormaker who produced the first cheap, goodlooking car (Moon, Diana), has already done his part. He built himself a house at Palm Beach this winter...
...interesting test of the corrector's ability to judge impartially. It may be that on receipt of his post card, with another added for good measure from University Hall, the southern vacationer will find himself free to continue studying history for the rest of the year in Palm Beach...
Among the posteards enclosed in the History I exam books, to be returned with the grade, was one bearing the address "Boylston Hall Library. Cambridge," and another "South Lake Trall, Palm Beach, Florida." The former was got picked with the idea of playing up Boylston Hall as an ideal winter resort, but rather to offer contrast instead...