Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood, where studios were only slightly damaged, Maurice Chevalier was recording a love song beside a pool of swans. He & swans instantly stopped work. Marlene Dietrich was autographing a photograph for a friend. The pen made a wild sweep. Miss Dietrich dated the picture to commemorate the occasion. Carole Lombard was flung from a fitting stand in the wardrobe room...
...hawks came to hunt again. More people stopped to watch. Before long three traffic policemen were needed to handle the hundreds who gathered daily to watch the aerial raids. Because the hawks always came at about 5:15 p. m. a merchant got the idea of starting a daily pool based on the fractional minute of the birds' appearance. Soon everyone from Mayor J. W. Kapp Jr. down was buying tickets...
...aside. Then he sat down. The scratch of his pen blended with the blurred bumble of voices coming through the swinging doors to the Senate chamber. A second bill went into the discard-a last-minute measure by South Carolina's Smith providing for a government cotton pool in return for acreage reduction. Herbert Hoover still had a mind of his own and he was determined to use it until the final minute. His rejection of the cotton bill set the head of outgoing Secretary of Agriculture Hyde wagging with approval...
There are three main features which the residents of Adams House consider distinct advantages: its proximity to the Yard, its separate cuisine, and the swimming pool. The first is a distinct advantage to those having 12 o'clock and 2 o'clock classes on the same day. The second is an advantage at all times, and the third is a unique feature of the House. As to the rest of the plant, it is as well equipped with the usual squash courts, music rooms and library as the other Houses...
...House lore, there is somewhat more than spirit. The present President of the United States is said to have lived in Westmorly during part of his undergraduate stay. Ann Pennington is reputed to have been entertained in the swimming pool with many of her beautifully-limbed compatriots, and the various versions of this rumor are both exciting and legion. Then too there is the good-will bestowed upon the House by the no longer existing Adams House of Boston, a hostel long famous for its good cheer, the deed for which is in the House archives. Besides these more...