Word: steeping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Half the U. S. people could buy legal liquor last week, and most of them found the prices painfully steep...
...critics were traipsing down to a dingy garret on slummy 14th Street to look at the most important modern paintings of the year. The route was obscure: past a cut rate drugstore, a toy shop and a haberdashery to a grimy doorway labeled: NEW WORKERS SCHOOL; up a narrow steep staircase straight to the top floor; through the bare offices of New York's Communist Opposition headquarters, to an oblong lecture room. There from door to door ran a set of 21 heavy, richly-colored fresco panels, a present to Communism by a man generally acknowledged...
...vitriol as a critic of the economic society in which he lived and of the leisure class which is its characteristic by-product. If it were so, it might explain the vitriol very well, but Mr. Bates has gone no farther than assumption, and against his assumption stand the steep national pride of the Norwegian and the Dane, the Scandinavian acquiescence in a strong domestic leisure class, and an appreciation of luxury that yields to that of no European race...
According to officials of the Club, the Big Tree Swimming Pool would make an admirable theatre due to the steep slope of the pool and the presence of a large balcony around it; it would seat about four hundred people. It is estimated that doing this and remodeling the building would cost about thirty-five hundred dollars, which amount, Francis Hart, graduate treasurer of the Dramatic Club, believes they could raise. Moreover, the Dramatic Club is willing to pay for a caretaker and the cost of heat and lighting. The front rooms of the structure could easily be fitted...
...Past master of absurdity and surprise, Joe Cook regularly employs three property men of his own to supplement his production's stage staff. He needs all of them in Hold Your Horses. He juggles a whopping hogshead which he catches on the soles of his feet from a steep runway. He directs Dave Chasen to drop down to the corner for some cigars, at the precise moment that Chasen disappears through a trap door. In his mayoral office is a statue which, when dusted, sneezes. He calls for his running pants, and a pair of trousers, propelled...