Word: take
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whose pins are safety pins. Recurrent target for its gags, skits, songs, is neither Hitler nor Chamberlain, strikes nor wars, but Franklin D. Roosevelt. Now & then the firecrackers land in F. D. R.'s hair, far oftener in the faces of Republicans and anti-New Dealers. The tycoons take their best beating in Sing Ho for Private Enterprise, where one of them groans he is reduced to eating domestic caviar. Between times the show, whose sprightly cast includes Hiram Sherman, Philip Loeb, Rex Ingram, Joey Faye, sings out the news about LaGuardia, European diplomats, liberals, Hollywood, café society...
...grasshopper, Georgia-born, 43-year-old Howard Hunter, who has spent one-third of all Federal money allotted to WPA in the last three years, made a wisecrack worthy of Harry Hopkins by disclosing he attributes his perfect complexion to the Tribune. "My stomach functions perfectly and I never take salts," said he. "I just read the Tribune every morning...
...electron while studying electric discharge in gases. Still alive, a Grand Old Man of 82, Sir Joseph strolls about in a black bowler with a cane clutched behind his back, attends "hall" (dinner) once a week, still putters in an old laboratory, is said by irreverent students never to take a bath. He got his Nobel Prize...
...ordinary sense, but textbooks or reference books. The former is full of difficult mathematics, the latter of intricate analyses, complex charts and diagrams, formidable mathematical and chemical equations. Professor Hogben has even inserted lists of questions and problems at the ends of his chapters for those who take their learning hard...
...periodicals are published for adults and a few for children, but hardly any specifically address the in-between group called Youth. Reason: Youth likes to be treated as if it were grownup. Last week, however, there appeared on U. S. newsstands a new magazine called Youth Today, designed to take advantage of Youth's depression-born self-consciousness...