Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...upbringing was such that I hate to see the U. S. A. at this late day turned into a vermiform appendix of the British Empire, that's all. Got to stop now to congratulate Margaret Halsey, who twisted the British Lion's tail so sweetly in With Malice Toward Some...
...them because he hasn't a union card." Asked whether a young, unknown artist with an independent manager has any chance against the competition of the big chains, Manager Judson replies: "If he's a good artist and has a good manager, God himself couldn't stop...
Cutler apparently saved himself somewhat in the 220 because from the outset in the 440 it was obvious that he was not going to let the lack of competition stop him from cracking five minutes. He maintained a blistering pace and almost lapped the field in the quarter-mile grind. His winning time was 4:59.5, a mark which has not yet been beaten by any of the country's other top collegiate 440 men this year...
...Education Department's business agent, one George H. Varney, would cost $16,500. When contracts for hurricane repair work, signed by Mr. Reardon, reached $410,232, the Massachusetts Federation of Taxpayers Association decided to investigate. What the federation discovered caused Attorney General Paul Dever to investigate and stop payment on most of the contracts and Governor Saltonstall last fortnight to demand Mr. Reardon's resignation. His charge: "You are incompetent and unfit...
...humor comes, of course, in his attitude toward manuscripts. Editor Burnett's advise to authors: do not write farm novels, family chronicles, trilogies, books about childhood, adolescence, abortions; do not write about neurotics ("self-love's labor lost"), and, if you are a young Armenian, stop writing imitations of Saroyan...