Word: playground
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...base." Under their jumpings up and down, the grating had sagged, torn open, tumbled about 20 little compounds of sugar & spice into a dusty depth. Falling chunks of concrete had injured 15, including legs broken and sprained. Remorseful, the nuns of Holy Cross looked to the pitfall of their playground...
...list. At last United Artists made Rain with Gloria Swanson, calling it Sadie Thompson; Hays permitted its release, but when producers pointed to this precedent as an argument for letting them bring out White Cargo, even suggesting that it could be disguised under its original title, Hell's Playground, he stood firm. White Cargo, in his opinion, was worse than Rain, worse than anything. Thus the way was open for the W. P. Film Co. of London, which bought the talking picture rights and released their product here, apparently without opposition. Their White Cargo is an uninspired photograph...
...present, the majority of opera singers take it for granted that their art places no restriction on their appetites. Eighteen Day Diets are to them a vague rite connected with the folk lore of the nation. Until this condition is altered, opera will continue to be a leisurely playground for pachyderms, and a stronghold for those who do not heed the cigarette advertisements...
...Spalding & Brothers (Playground equipment, bathing suits, fishing tackle, balls, clubs, bats): $2,050,446 as against...