Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deal has been written around the character of J. Edward Jones, a Manhattan oil royalty dealer whom the Securities & Exchange Commission has been assiduously trying to put out of business for more than a year. Last month Oil Royalist Jones won from the Supreme Court a legal victory and sweet revenge in the form of a verbal thrashing administered by Justice Sutherland to the SEC and all other New Deal agencies whose zeal might be exceeding their authority (TIME, April...
...Early up, and glad at my heart to know I am finished with examinations; and, yet, a little sad to quit my studies with my tutor, and to feel I must soon leave these pleasant bowers where I have learned many sweet philosophies. But it being such a fair day, I no more of these thoughts; so, in brave new flannels, all a bubble, to the office where I have not been in a long time. There I did see many new faces and one young one did ask what might my business be. Also I see my desk...
...last complete play of Shakspere's, The Winter's Tale, basks in the the golden glow of the master's genius; the sweet country air runs all through it, and few, if any, of his plays leave a pleasanter picture in one's memory. "As long as men can think, Perdita shall brighten and sweeten, Hermione ennoble, mens' minds and lives...
...preparing any college story it is amazing to discover how very readily all college types, both real and imaginative, lend themselves to caricature. The Joe College freshman; the cross Dean, a perfect heavy in every case, the co-ed-heroine, usually portrayed as a sweet, delectible Dream Princess; the hard-boiled football coach, always a character builder; the towering Adonis who plays full-back and causes feminine hearts to flutter; and as for the absent-minded professor pick up any college comic magazine and you'll find plenty of jokes about...
Arriving in Chicago, oldtime opera singer Mary Garden scoffed at reports that she was about to wed elderly Radio Impresario Edward Bowes, explained: "The Major is a dear, sweet lovable man. We are very good friends, but not lovers. Can't you understand friendship...