Word: springing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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High priestess of the Set was supposed to be Virginia-born Lady Astor, nee Nancy Langhorne, the mistress of Cliveden and M. P. for Plymouth. Last week in Saturday Evening Post "Priestess" Nancy indignantly denounced all Cliveden Set stories. Lord & Lady Astor put in their first disclaimers last spring; he to the London Times, she to the Daily Herald. Now she gives full tongue. "Cliveden Set! There is no such thing! It is a fantastic invention. It has no existence. It never did exist." After that heated beginning Cliveden's mistress proceeded sarcastically to list those who really were...
...roundabouts it never quite makes up on the swing. The audience got what it came for only when the Three Little Maids from School strutted what they had learned there, when the Mikado (Edward Fraction) bust out into a cakewalk, when the flowers that bloomed in the spring gave way to a jamboree that had nothing to do with the case, but proved mighty, mighty tra-la. The Federal Theatre boldly moved The Mikado from Japan to the South Seas. It should have been bolder still and moved it, shag and shaggage, to Harlem...
...Courthouse, Va. Dr. Dodd, arrested on a hit-&-run charge, pleaded not guilty. On trial last week, he changed his plea, threw himself on the mercy of the court. His daughter, Martha Dodd Stern, testified that he had declined mentally and physically since the death of his wife last spring. His lawyer said that he had already paid over $1,100 in hospital and doctors' bills to Glois Grimes's parents. The judge, who might have sent tired old Dr. Dodd to jail, fined him $250 and costs...
...going to work and work hard," said Coach Dick Harlow, talking of the coming spring practice just before he left on his southern trip. "What we want," he continued, "is a group of boys who really love the game and are willing to get out there and give it all they...
Germany and Italy will not produce a war crisis this spring, Fritz Morstein Marx, assistant professor of Government, declared in an interview yesterday. Hitler and Mussolini are conscious of the fact that England and Franco will not sacrifice any of their vital interests...