Word: superiore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...choose, and where he may now but at reasonable prices. "Necessities" stores-stationary and drug stores, book stores, sporting goods stores-offer the student anything he may desire. There are also the shops which cater to the so-called "quality trade" whose prices are somewhat higher, but whose superior merchandise and more personal service give the student full value for money received...
...radio--sounds silly as hell, but "Man With a New Radio" is still very funny-- as is "And the Angels Sing"--done in the best grand opera tradition . . . Ten years ago: Lobe, the dog, was the star attraction with the Horace Heidt orchestra . . . Sacramento, Cal.: The Superior Court held a Sacramento city ordinance prohibiting music of any kind after 11 p.m. unconstitutional! No local reference needed...
...Moley's nominal superior in 1933, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, is shown as a singleminded, sincere, intellectually limited man, subjected to a succession of groveling humiliations. A devastating chapter is the account of the torpedoed world Monetary and Economic Conference in London 1933. In it, Author Moley makes out Cordell Hull a simpleton let down by his Chief, the President a pitiable ignoramus "saying two plus two made ten" who didn't know beans about the international money system which he blew sky high...
...mainland, meanwhile, the Army began operations with the cards stacked in its favor: with far superior equipment, with new determination to jack its sagging morale, with the knowledge that Britain and France were no longer the whalebones in China's financial corset. The Army's greatest blessing was that it no longer had Russia to fear. Soldiers read reports from Domei, the official news agency, telling that in the no man's land of the Manchukuo-Outer Mongolian border, a Japanese lieutenant colonel and a Soviet major general stepped from cars decorated with white flags and shook...
...maintain 307 old people's homes throughout the world. The 52 U. S. homes care for 50,000 oldsters-men & women over 60, of all faiths. Upon entering a home, inmates surrender their belongings, if any, to the order, thus become members of a "Little Family," call the superior "Good Mother." Many a home is now in a dither of pious excitement. With no regard for calendar dates, the Little Sisters have been celebrating their centenary. The mother house at St. Servan (which was a base hospital in World War I) celebrated in July, Brooklyn Little Sisters in August...