Word: sharpers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lines were generally sharper than age lines. For loss of the left arm, young women wanted $1,000,000, young men $1,000,000,000. Men said they would be willing to fall into a trance during the month of October every year for $2,000,000 or become insane every July for $95,000,000. Women wanted $200,000 for an October trance, $4,500,000 for July madness. For $10,000,000 each, men would spend their lives in a Manhattan apartment. Women wanted $62,500,000. To abandon all hope of life after death the men wanted...
...list. Then if the chain is unbroken, he will receive no less than 15,625 dimes ($1,562.50). Chain letters fall afoul of the Postal regulations because if the chain is broken the participants are guilty of making promises they cannot keep. And there is nothing to prevent a sharper from making a handsome profit by mailing out 10,000 letters with his name at the top of each list...
...concerned the claws of the Blue Eagle are Section 7 (a) of the Recovery Act. Last week Labor got General Johnson to use those claws, not once but twice, on the same day. In each case the result was the same: Labor proclaimed the claws dull, demanded bigger and sharper ones...
...investigate the soil: gluttonous George Shaw asking his tired wife for another piece of pie; Jen Shaw coming out of the schoolhouse one winter afternoon, when Stan Janowski's sleigh is waiting. Heat Lightning (Warner). This small investigation of goings-on at a desert gas-station is sharper and more honest than most one-room melodramas manufactured in Hollywood. Under Mervyn Le Roy's perceptive direction there are vigorous and amusing sequences: the arrival, en route from Reno to the coast, of two nervous, overdressed divorcees with their languid chauffeur (Frank McHugh ) ; an itinerant bankrobber's bashful...
...when America is spending $386,000,000 less this year on secondary education than it did in 1930, when 175,000 school children lack primary training in the three R's because their communities lack cash, such a course is patently impractical. The only solution appears to be a sharper differentiation between men who are going to college and those who are not, a stiffening of the standards of the former, and, most important, the colleges cease catering to the theory that all men should receive a higher education. In overcoming the inertia of tradition in the relegating of secondary...