Word: precious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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College authorities are said to frown on the practice possible because they believe that Radcliffe girls "should preserve their precious femininity," as one officer...
...Orson Welles who, in his famous The War of the Worlds broadcast, scared fewer people than Hitler, but more than had ever been frightened by radio before, demonstrating that radio can be a tremendous force in whipping up mass emotion. Playwright of the Year was Thornton Wilder, previously a precious litterateur, whose first play on Broadway, Our Town, was not only ingenious and moving, but a big hit. To Gabriel Pascal, producer of Pygmalion, first full-length picture based on the wordy dramas of George Bernard Shaw, went the title of Cineman of the Year for having discovered a rich...
Last week a flashy Manhattan haberdasher, Marty Walker, had the "honor and distinction" of advertising that his was "the first concern in the entire world privileged to present MEN'S HEAVY-WEIGHT*OVERCOATS of the world's most precious fabric, 100% PURE STROOCK VICUÑA CLOTH." Broadway crowds stopped to gape at the model coat which 60 vicuñas died to make. One man actually ordered a coat. Price...
Youngest child of elderly parents, Eliot at Harvard was tense, sensitive and reserved. His Advocate contemporaries say he was English in everything but accent and citizenship. His remarks were quiet, witty, precise but not precious. He smoked a pipe, liked to be alone, carefully avoided slang, and dressed with the studied carelessness of a future dandy...
From $6,554,600,000 appropriated for agriculture since 1933, Congress has got precious little pork. This year, however, Secretary Henry Agard Wallace has had some pork to cut-$4,000,000 for four laboratories to study new outlets for U. S. crops. Last week, after weeding through more than 200 applications and bruising susceptible Congressional feelings, Secretary Wallace located the laboratories, one in each major U. S. crop region: Northern (corn, wheat, agricultural wastes) at Peoria, Ill.; Southern (cotton, sweet potatoes, peanuts) at New Orleans; Eastern (tobacco, milk products, apples, potatoes, vegetables) near Philadelphia; Western (wheat, potatoes, alfalfa, vegetables...