Word: skin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once again, in view of the uncertain future, a more fixed and a firmer source of revenue than the present one might be suggested at least for the program of intramural sports. While Harvard has been almost unique in squeezing through this year with a whole skin, the next seasons may be considerably leaner, even allowing for the fact that the Association could naturally cut more in nine months than it has in five. But as long as the H.A.A. has to make up its budget in the spring by guessing at the probable football receipts for the next autumn...
...which early Harold Lloyd pictures were constructed. The mechanic in charge of a steam crane gets drunk. The Russian foreman orders him out of the cab and climbs in himself. With very little knowledge of how the contraption will react, he begins to pull its levers, manages, by the skin of his teeth, to avoid dropping several tons of cement on his underlings. Men and Jobs is not. essentially, entertainment, but it is a striking and intelligent advertisement for the Five-Year Plan. Good shot: the Russian foreman making a speech in which he tries to explain how, after...
...something warm and stimulating." Milk is an efficacious adjunct to alcoholic liquors because, more than any other food, it inhibits intoxication by retarding the accumulation of alcohol in the blood. By itself, alcohol is not warming; it produces an illusory glow by increasing the amount of blood in the skin, but this glow causes excess radiation of body heat, reduces the temperature. Hot drinks help promote sleep; those containing alcohol may do so if stimulation is absent or has subsided. The hypnotic action of beer is due in part to the lupulin of the hops rather than to the alcohol...
...leaving Berlin: "That insignificant, irritable visa incident will not spoil the pleasure of the voyage. . . . It's all forgotten. The trouble with hearings of that kind is that you don't realize until some time has passed just where the inquisitor is trying to get under your skin. I suggest in the future Consuls put pins in their victims' chairs so they will feel stuck from the beginning." In Washington, when hearings on the annual Postal Supply Bill were made public, it was learned that the Post Office Department had traded $1,700 and eight used automobiles...
...LIFE GOES ON-Vicki Baum- Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). BLACK MISCHIEF-Evelyn Waugh- Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). BRAVE NEW WORLD-Aldous Huxley- Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). BRIGHT SKIN-Julia Peterkin-Bobbs-Merrill ($2.50). FARAWAY - J. B. Priestley - Harper ($2-75). FLOWERING WILDERNESS-John Galsworthy-Scribner ($2.50). THE FOUNTAIN-Charles Morgan- Knopf ($2.50). GOD'S ANGRY MAN-Leonard Ehrlich -Simon & Schuster ($2.50). GREENBANKS-Dorothy Whipple-Far-rar & Rinehart ($2.50). INHERITANCE-Phyllis Bentley-Mac-millan ($2.50). INVITATION TO THE WALTZ-Rosamond Lehmann-Holt ($2). THE LADY OF THE BOAT - Lady Murasaki-Houghton Mifflin ($3.50). LIGHT IN AUGUST-William Faulkner -Smith & Haas ($2.50). LIMITS & RENEWALS...