Word: sided
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More attractive, although on the pretty-pretty side, are the girls in Living Magazine Covers. Eye-catching are: 1) Rosita Royce's dance with live doves at the Crystal Palace, which ends in purple shadows and a lightning-quick strip; 2) the Crystal Lassies show, where, one at a time, semi-nude girls do semi-classical dances in a domelike hall of mirrors which reflects their images a thousand times over & over...
...Hyde Park the servants* we brought from Washington suffered from a jinx which followed its course in three mishaps! My mother-in-law's serving table in the dining room has a center standard. Too many dishes were put on one side, and in the middle of the dinner the table tipped over. No one could think for a minute because of the noise of breaking china...
...molls, Dead End kids, corn-fed blondes, tap-dancing Negroes, G-Men, bubble dancers, tough babies, flagpole sitters, Kentucky moonshiners, Irish cops and co-eds with voices like nails on a sheet of glass. This is rather like confining one's study of English life to the side shows at the circus...
...Debt: The other side of an investment is a debt. Debt is a very bad word in the folkways. Yet few people realize that if there were no debts there would be no investments, and nothing to be called capitalism.* It is important to keep debt and investment closely associated throughout these hearings. Otherwise you are going to get stump speeches on the horrors of Government debt and the sublimities of private investment. It is equally in order to talk about the virtues of Government investment and dangers of private debt...
...famed surgeon-poet-Senator-wit collected ?100 libel damages from poor Irish Poet Patrick" Kavanagh. Immortalized in Joyce's Ulysses (1922) as Malachi Mulligan, Gogarty declared that Joyce had perpetrated a gross libel. The Mulligan portrait, said its original, was a brutalized version showing only the bawdy side of his wit; Joyce had maliciously muted his subtler accomplishments, such as his poetry, his witty out-talking of Dublin's best talkers...