Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, there is a gentlemanly reluctance on the part of Germany and this country to start air raids on civilians. We certainly shan't start...
...Governorship with the reassuring statement that his "hands were clean." But at this point the Federal Government showed interest in why the tax-racket hearings had been stopped. One of Attorney General Frank Murphy's "smart boys," Harold Rosenwald, announced that the Federal Grand Jury would immediately start hearings. Earl Kemp Long kept mum. But he and all Louisiana were aware that only Earl's boss, Mayor Robert S. Maestri of New Orleans, still remained untouched by the tidal wave that in four months has washed up nearly every major figure in the old Huey Long machine...
Three years ago Mr. Stokes, who is Managing Director of the excavating equipment makers, Ransomes & Rapier Ltd., declared: "The manufacture of shells for profit is revolting!" He offered to start making shells on a basis of "no profit and no loss" and shareholders of Ransomes & Rapier voted unanimous approval, but His Majesty's Government preferred to do business with armorers who figure on making profits, take their own risks of losses...
...mercy of a muddled playwright and an arty director, a not untalented cast was doomed from the start. Apparently assuming that twisted bodies mean twisted souls, they writhed like the Laocoon group. A revolutionary solemnly announced that only a small part of the human race have their heads cut off. The villain twitched about the stage like Mephistopheles with a tic. The audience half expected Fannie Brice to burst in, roll her eyes, and mutter as she did of yore: "It is always c-o-old in Roosia...
Tommy is on the right track. If he hangs onto Oliver and gets some men back into his band that know the meaning of swing and limits his own playing to lead solos, he'll start going up once more...