Word: rate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much harder job than it seems to the average patron who yawns and wishes he had gone in town instead; but it does seem probable that one good picture on each bill would draw a better crowd than two poor ones, eked out with an act of fifth-rate vaudeville. Of what use are ushers in natty uniforms, radio set in the lobby, and all the luxury of the Pharoahs, in the pictures on the screen are specimens of Hollywood at its worst. Movies in the Square, especially at such times of stress as examinations always bring, could...
...with a certain system and order; after a day of handling, however, they are reduced to woeful complexity. Only those courses ending at the midyear are guaranteed the safe haven of being bound in book form. The others, the whole courses, are destined to lurk unseen or at any rate unfond in a maze of un-alphabetized sheets...
Since late November influenza has been increasing throughout western Europe at so alarming a rate that public health officials have come to fear a pandemic, a world-wide occurrence of this disease, such as happened in 1918-19. Already Switzerland, Germany England and France have been severely hit. At Nantes, France, the undertakers reported last week that they were four days behind with their burials. Their crogue-morts* complained of sore feet and demanded subsidy for new shoes. In Italy the authorities claimed they have no epidemic. But no gloss was smeared over the situation in Spain, Ireland, Scotland...
...rate, we never each call other blue-jackets'"--Leo Richman, U. S. S. West Virginia...
...First rate, Colonel,' said Freddy, just like this...