Word: restful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House went the bill and to Lynchburg, Va. went Carter Glass for a week-end rest, 45 miles from the home of Virginia's first historic angry...
...Beauty" contest in her neighborhood in 1933. After two years on the Paramount payroll, during which she failed to set any celluloid on fire, she was dropped, spent a year looking for a job. Warner Bros, put her under contract in 1936. Last year the Warners, envious with the rest of Hollywood of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's glamorous Hedy Lamarr, started circulating glamorous photographs of Ann Sheridan, her red hair dyed a shade lighter than life, her teeth in permanent caps, her nubile curves seductively displayed. Although her most ambitious job of work since then has been an unimpressive...
These were the spoils of the vanquished and Wendell Willkie deserves most of the credit for winning them. Other businessmen have fought tongue-tied and embarrassed before the Congressional committee, have sued in the courts and taken their licking. In the courts Willkie has taken his beating with the rest, but he has seldom come off second best in sparring before committees or in political debate. Resourceful, informed, more publicly articulate than any big U. S. businessman today, he turned committee hearings into promotion for his own political-economic doctrines. He emerged from his fights bigger in public stature than...
...clothes, and full of intellectual hops. He has an unruly mop of brown hair, a barrel chest, and he stands six feet one in spite of stooping as if he were perpetually leaning over a jury box. When he sits in a chair he sprawls like a sheepdog at rest but his blue, humor-flecked eyes look out from under knitted brows waiting for the argument to begin...
When a carload of logs goes through a pulp mill, half of it (the fiber) comes out as pulp (for paper). The rest comes out as a waste sulphite liquor,* a sirupy fluid. To U. S. paper mills this waste was as much a nuisance as used razor blades to ordinary citizens. Poured into rivers at the rate of 3,000,000 tons a year, it absorbed the free oxygen in the water, impairing fishing and polluting streams...