Word: swallowable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood, Calif., cinema, sound engineers listed ten words barred from cinemas: Cohesion, distilling, aluminum, catastrophe, seething, felicitations, nemesis, procrastination, hippopotamus, and rural. Reason: most film actors hiss or swallow them...
...State of Western Australia is a vast semidesert as big as Western Europe. Separating it from the rest of Australia are 800 miles of uninhabited country. Among the jack rabbits, kangaroos and kookaburra birds that laugh hysterically and swallow snakes, live half a million farmers who till the fertile belt so successfully that they produce more than one fourth of Australia's wheat. Western Australians have long looked sideways at the Commonwealth's densely populated states, at the Eastern manufacturers who profit from the Commonwealth's high tariff, at the public works paid for by Australia...
...cannot swallow this last move of Premier Forbes!" cried Finance Minister W. Downie Stewart. "Many times I have subordinated my views to his but now I resign...
...appearances on the stage of the Palace Theater are a better a enough pill to swallow. But the last punishing touch of perfidy are the lines alleged to come from his pen. A strange and altogether alien person seems to tell how he took the "400", in to camp, wallowed in their silk sheets, sipped their wines, smoked their expensive tobacco, and regaled them with his glittering conversation...
What lbs. are to mining men, kw. hrs. to utility men, ft. to lumbermen, $ are to life insurance men. Few bodies of men can swallow such huge figures without blinking as the assembled Association of Life Insurance Presidents, a body representing 68 companies doing over 90% of the U. S. business. Figures they barkened to at their Manhattan convention last week included: $3,000,000,000-the increase in assets of companies holding 86% of the assets of all U. S. firms since 1929. $19,000,000,000-the present total of assets. $103,700,000,000-insurance...