Word: three
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...horses (⅔ cavalry; ⅓ draft) from three Midwest commission firms. Buyer: France...
...mistress) with a belt of false teeth, Mr. and Mrs. Sacher Masoch in riding breeches, and enough assorted subconscious erotica to strain the limbo of an experienced psychopath. Meanwhile, at one side of the stage, a moribund, vine-sprouting faun in red tights concentrated on knitting a sock with three-foot knitting needles...
...other directors maul his lines, twist their meanings, spot a laugh where there was none. He first took over direction in 1925, on the only play he has written by himself, The Butter and Egg Man. He lacked confidence to finish the job, or even his next two or three, but since then he has directed almost all his own shows...
...middle-class Jewish family who "managed to get in on every business as it was finishing, and made a total of $4 among them." After leaving high school, George started studying law because it seemed a good way to put off working for several years. But after three months he quit, because he couldn't make heads or tails...
Since 1934 Chicago's mammoth Marshall Field & Co., depression-riven, has had its face lifted. Shorn of its wholesale division, many a retail outlet and mill, the company turned a 1937 deficit of $1,654,452 into a 1938 profit of $3,492,238. Last week, with three-quarters earnings of $1,718,458 up 58% from 1938, blue-eyed chubby-cheeked President Frederick Dexter Corley offered a plan and a plum to stockholders...