Word: roast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...total of $250,000 by answering questions about 30 films and writing a 50-word essay. Sample question: "What did Snow White's stepmother coax her to eat in order to cast a spell over her?-a mince pie, an apple, a strawberry tart, or a roast duck?" Sample essay: "Snow White made me feel like a child again. . . ." Print order for the 32-page contest booklet was 50,000,000, roughly one for every other person in the U. S. and Canada who could read...
...fall of any government. His eyebrows upped with vague uneasiness, he hands a match to Mussolini, who is lighting a bomb under his chair. Perched beside Colonel Blimp on a raging volcano, he spurns Litvinoff's assistance in putting out the fire: "Sorry," he says, as the flames roast his rear, "but we don't want to burn our fingers." Cartoonist Low is almost as good in his caricatures of General Franco, but his drawings of Franco are in his old mood, give the General something of the air of a small boy unaware of the ruination around...
...such friends of the livestock and meat industry as Chairman William Bishop Warner of the National Association of Manufacturers, Hotelman Ralph Hitz, Railroader John Jeremiah Pelley, Editor Glenn Frank, Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick. Convening from all over the nation, the 457 spent 180 minutes eating sirloin beef roast and hearing how the I. A. M. P. was girding up its sirloins to battle against underconsumption...
...playwriting. Three of his plays are currently on the London stage. Last week one of them,*another attempt to dramatize that old riddle, time, failed to impress Manhattan audiences either as drama or as metaphysics. Time and the Conways was like a heavy slab of Yorkshire pudding with no roast beef...
...arrived in the hypothetical town of Zenith on a business trip. He marched through its marble-lined railroad station, climbed into a shiny taxicab, rode up Zenith's Main Street, admiring a handsome museum, four handsome churches, a dozen glittering drug stores. After he had dined on excellent roast beef in his hotel, Bill Smith lit a cigar and strolled out to a cinema, making up his mind on the way that he would tell his wife Zenith was a "great town...