Word: ponds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bought a Bible and a globe. Another nephew she married to the daughter of her girlhood love, thus producing Pu Yi whom she made Emperor at two. She floated a foreign loan for naval construction and put it into a fantastic marble pleasure boat that grounded in her lily pond. She sent the fanatic Boxers (Righteous Harmony Fists) against the Christian missionaries, stopped the massacres to make a sketch in the Forbidden City, again to send fresh fruit to the besieged foreigners...
...cast himself in the role of George White, celebrated producer. Mr. White's initial attempt to transmute the warm fleshliness of his revues to the screen suffers the same cold fate as other Hollywood musicomedies. Original ideas such as garden-frocked girls dancing across stepping stones in a pond, or a chorus of 100 carrying assorted dogs in their arms, are made tedious by end less elaborations. Typical shot: miniature chorus girl perched on the rim of a screen-high champagne glass. ¶The Show Off (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). George Kelly's biography of a braggart was voted...
Your issue of Feb. 12 gives credit to a rainy football game of 1923 for the baptism of "Ducky" Pond, whereas . . . The Hill students of that time know that he bore the name "Duck" when he was helping Hotchkiss beat The Hill some three or four years before...
...warm moist spring to name a "Bud"' Weiser, a long hot summer to make "Dusty'' Rhodes, the big-league ball player, or a Oriental climate to grow a "Fig" Newton; whereas probably any one knows that those names, like Topsy, "just grew." A boy named Pond probably is called "Duck" in grade school, unless unfortunately he should happen to be a "Lily...
...gnawed down trees, floated them through canals of their own making, gathered up sticks, stones and mud. With their strong front paws they packed all such material together in high, solid dams (see cut). Their houses, too, they built of sticks & mud, above water on solid foundations down to pond bottom. la oven-shaped, mud-floored rooms about 3 ft. square, 2ft. high many a young beaver was born, to swim and frolic without care until in the summer of its third year it was ready to leave home, set up for itself...