Word: portions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ernest. As sodden and pale as a 10?-portion of mashed potatoes is this musical comedy adaptation of Oscar Wilde's gay farce The Importance of Being Earnest. Wildian epigrams frolic beside such lines as "My Rolls is waiting; so is my coffee." Sometimes the dancing is agreeable...
...either came to the table where I was sitting and asked if he could have breakfast with me, or he called me to his table and asked me to have breakfast with him. He immediately began to talk again about the case and pulled out of his pocket a portion of the charge which he was to deliver, as I understood it, on that day. He read parts of it to me with comments like this: 'Counsel for defense said so and so yesterday, and this is my reply.' He then read a part of the charge...
Delegates from the U. S., Britain and Japan are expected to convene in Geneva next month for the Naval Disarmament Conference sponsored by President Coolidge (TIME, Feb. 21, March 7, March 21); but last week an event occurred which reminded Europeans sharply how large a portion of the War was fought on land or in the air, and by nations other than the U. S., Britain and Japan...
...author does not fall to include the familiar distribe on the passion in America for proyphylactic cleanliness. It is not extraordinary that our land of prohibitions both legal and moral, provides tantalizing stimulus for any sensitive observer, be he yokel or diplomat, foreigner or native wit. In this portion of the book alone does the author play the game he has chosen for though fairry adroit satire pinch-hits for the more rugged sincerity which any critical work presupposes he nevertheless concludes his observations in more commendable fashion than he approached his unfamiliar subject...
Grist for the tabloid mills, pun material for Will Rogers stuff out of which we-view-with-alarm editorials are written--such is the effect of William Hale Thompson's election as mayor of Chicago on the extra-Chicago portion of the nation. Meanwhile Chicago politicians scratch their heads and reformers settle down to a prosperous season. The city knows what to expect; two terms of Mayor Thompson have convinced it that all is not sweet and clean by the shorts of Lake Michigan. Nevertheless it is willing to have another...