Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...actor had told him offstage a few minutes before. Against his will, irresistibly, he grinned. The effect was electric. Irresistibly Doug Fairbanks grinned and leaped his way to stage success as a bounding Lothario, a leaping Lochinvar who made love on the bounce. Hollywood gave him higher walls to scale, longer ropes to swing on, scores more swordsmen to engage in single-handed combat. His first picture, The Lamb, jumped his first ten-week contract, under puttee-wearing Director David Wark Griffith, from $2,000 a week to a three-year contract at $4,000 a week, typed...
...Still in rehearsal last week was still another grand-scale ice show, the European All-Star Ice Revue. Its cast includes two dozen British skaters who found themselves jobless this winter, Switzerland's famed Armand Perren (King Leopold's skating instructor), South Africa's Edwina Blades and New York's peppy Audrey Peppe (twice runner-up for the U. S. amateur figure-skating championship), who turned professional last week...
...Sodium hexametaphosphate, 16 lbs. of which in 1,000,000 gals, of water will prevent scale formation in pipes...
...beloved of institutions, 2) is necessary to the very existence of civilization, 3) gives real help in meeting moral problems, 4) will destroy civilization if it is not radically changed, 5) has done more for society than any other institution." Comment: Try rating the Interstate Commerce Commission on that scale...
...stories in a single week. The imaging the accounts of red nests and Moscow gold and police visits (no such police visit as the CRIMSON describes over occurred) are amusing, do doubt, but our laughter becomes a little wry when we see how this complements on a potty local scale the attempts of the Dies Committee to frighten liberals and progressives into inactivity and silence...