Word: scotch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What Every Woman Knows" develops its characters in a thoughtful way which has only been equalled this year by "The Barretts of Wimpole Street." In the role of the understanding Scotch girl, Maggie, who is guiding the career of her legally won husband, Miss Hayes never loses a sense of reality. She even allows you to have a few glimpses of the possibilities of her character in the opening scenes so that her later actions appear logical and natural...
...rule without, interfering in any way with its program. Why he accepts this uninspired position is not so easily arrived at. Probably in 1929 he felt that a national emergency made compromise a patriotic duty. Since then the subtle influences of Mayfair and old age have lulled his fighting Scotch radicalism. The laborite has become respectable...
Harvard's 782 bottles were consisted mainly by those which had just held Scotch, with Irish and Rye running up. West Point also preferred Scotch, though by not such a large majority...
Most famed foundation for this allegation of a Jewish world-conspiracy is the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. Always purporting to be fact, this ingenious work has been circulated in 15 languages. Last year Swiss Jews caught Swiss Nazis distributing copies of it. Eager to scotch the old charge publicly, the Jews brought a libel suit which became a criminal action when it appeared that the Nazis had violated a Swiss law against circulating literature "calculated to excite vile instincts or to cause brutal offense...
Grace, the black sheep, is the stupid sixth child of an upright Scotch Presbyterian stone mason, whose wife died when Grace was 4. During school days Grace was "nervous" and "hard to manage." Men in the shoe factory, where she went to work at 16, found her easy prey. Promiscuity she did not realize was wrong. It was for her simply a means of getting to skating rinks, dance halls and cinemas. Grace and a friend named Edith had babies by casual sailors, gaily named their infants after each other. Grace's Edith, now 14, is beginning to show...