Word: selected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There were articles on funeral prices, cut-rate practices, arrangement of the casket display room so that the prospect will not always select the cheap ones. Only once was the delicate (to the undertaker) subject of cremation mentioned; thus...
...Hollywood. The Road to Singapore can best be regarded as a testimonial to the merits of a less acquisitive policy. It is possibly William Powell's worst picture and far below the standard which Warner Bros, have announced their intention to maintain by adopting a smaller and more select production schedule (TIME, Sept. 20). Powell, identified with less lush impersonations at Paramount, seems vapid by contrast in this picture although his mannerisms are less noxious than those of Basil Rathbone, who played the role on the stage. Doris Kenyon, who is now no older in appearance than when...
...yielding what she so deeply needed ; and if it fell to an inordinate memory thus at the beginning sometimes to wound her with abnormal revisionings, it was to become the office of an equally inordinate imagination in the end to turn them, in restitution, to another account ? to select, to reshape, to interpret every adaptable passage in the history of her house, first to foster an extraordinary wish, and at last to sustain a strange unearthly hope...
...this is correct I should suggest when the syndicate incorporates they select the name of "The Benedict Arnold Racing Club...
...methods of selection for the scholarships is as follows. Thirty-two are assigned annually to the United States. For the election in 1931 the states of the Union are grouped into eight districts of six states each. There is a competition in every state. In each state the Committee of Selection will nominate from the candidates applying to it the two best men to appear before the District Committee. Each district committee will then select from the 12 candidates so nominated not more than four men who will represent their states as Rhodes scholars at Oxford...