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...does not." In every plantation white these traits were strongly enhanced by the Negro, a champion pleasure man and dreamer. As for the mass of poor whites-locked off on poor land from the plantation world, indifferent to labor-theirs was "a tragic descent into unreality," a "void of pointless leisure...
...Manuel Avila Camacho, and his chief opponent, General Juan Andreu Almazán, join him in withdrawing their candidacies, thus leaving President Cárdenas in office for the duration of the "world danger." Unable to keep pace with Mexican politics, bewildered students in Mexico City put on a pointless series of riots. And at Hermosilla pre-flip-floppists took another shot at Candidate Almaz...
...less of late. The New Dealers should be the first to admit that. They maintain that government spending produced a wave of recovery, and that the Roosevelt recession came only when pump-priming was halted. For them to deny that public money has helped correct economic distress would be pointless self-castigation. Sullivan and Krock have only misunderstood, or misinterpreted, the New Deal protest at Miss Thompson's figures...
...Chrysler trader who failed to outguess the tape. They reasoned that the market's way of rising is to go down 1, up 2; that its way of falling is to go down 2, up 1; that last week's rally will soon be just another pointless zigzag in a longer decline...
...canny, candy-munching In spector Mackenzie, Actor Digges, who can lift a scene with less effort than Raffles steals a necklace, pilfers most of the picture. What he leaves is filched by Dame May Whitty (the lady of The Lady Vanishes). Their threefold larcenies make entertainment as pleasant as pointless...