Word: tamely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Agitation for such a measure began under the Hoover Administration during the depths of Depression. At that time it seemed radical enough to be killed off with the warning that a political party with a stranglehold on credit to private enterprise could perpetuate itself in power. But small and tame beside other New Deal measures last week looked S. 3487 as amended by the House, with its authorization for the twelve Federal Reserve Banks to lend up to $140,000,000 and RFC to lend up to $300,000,000 to big and little businesses. Federal loans up to five...
Fresh-water anglers find exciting and beautiful the sight of a 12-in. trout leaping clear of a mountain stream. That seems tame to Novelist-Fisherman Zane Grey. He has seen monsters long and heavy and fierce as tigers hurtle themselves 30 ft. above the deep sea. In the current Natural History magazine, out last week, he told about them in the first account ever published of a shark that leaps when hooked...
...producers. Stranded on a desert isle, an heiress (Carole Lombard) and a sailor (Bing Crosby) give credit where due by remarking that their situation resembles that outlined in The Admirable Crichton. This is an exaggeration, for Sir James Matthew Barrie did not trouble to put a trained bear, a tame crooner, Burns & Allen and two mercenary Georgian princelings into his play. In We're Not Dressing Miss Lombard's yacht is wrecked when her drunken uncle (Leon Errol) steers it on a reef. When the passengers reach land, Crooner Crosby masters the situation by cooking clams, building thatched...
...Watson Webb. Mr. & Mrs. Charles Shipman Payson (Joan Whitney) sent their Don Vincente Osorio, Count of Trastamara as a Child from their huge living room in Manhasset. Jules Bache lent his often exhibited Don Manuel Osorio, an engaging infant half-surrounded by three cats, a bird cage, a tame magpie. Chicago's Art Institute was represented by six small canvases showing a monk accurately and amusingly shooting and capturing a bandit. All the other pictures were portraits: the aloof La Tirana, an actress whom legend has included among Goya's mistresses; Mr. Mellon's gravely beautiful Senora...
...flashy sextet whipped an eager Harvard team by a score of 3-1 before 8000 wild fans in the Boston Garden last Saturday night. But it the same time it revealed that although the Bulldog may attack savagely it intervals, the Crimson outfit notwithstanding has the punch to tame him once it gets together...