Word: recommended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Army officers are forbidden to recommend any appropriations not provided in the budget. At the time of General Hagood's testimony the budget had not, however, been prepared...
...pick-me-up." Drawn into the lungs in quick, deep breaths, it is said to produce effects quite similar to those of alcohol. Those who champion the superiority of alcohol point to the awesome "hang-overs" which they allege result from oxygen "jags." Others, however, deny this allegation and recommend oxygen in preference to the best Scotch...
...other respects The Music Goes 'Round has little novelty to recommend it beyond the presence in the cast of Harry Richman, whose Times Square baritone and face of a dissolute mastiff have not been on display for cinemaddicts since Putting on the Ritz in 1930. He is a song & dance man who salvages a troupe of cheap melodrama actors from a Mississippi River showboat, puts them in his Broadway production, gets remorse when the audience laughs at the heroine (Rochelle Hudson...
...last week, "Belgium must prepare for an invasion even more sudden and devastating than that of the Germans in 1914. All countries, including Great Britain, consider the danger of a war a reality at this juncture. A sudden and powerful invasion is an imminent possibility. Today many military experts recommend military invasion without notice or declaration...
...recommend itself to Anglophobes. But she is not above poking a little feminine fun at the solemn inanities of academic rigmarole, and her satire-especially of conversation at the dons' high table-is kindly but rich. The Author ought to know her Oxford. She was born there (1893), where her father was headmaster of the Cathedral Choir School. She was one of the most brilliant scholars of her year at Somerville College and one of the first to be awarded an Oxford degree (she took a First in Medieval Literature). In London she got a job writing copy...