Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Promiscuity implies that attraction is not necessary. ... I may lay my eyes on a man and have an affaire with him the next hour. . . . "I am serious about marriage - too serious to indulge in it. ... I know that once I get a thing - or a man - I'll tire of it and of him. . . . "I go to the movies. Garbo is a very great genius. I'm mad about her. And I'm not, as a rule, "very fond of women. . . . "If there's anything the matter with me now, it's certainly not Hollywood...
When they came out to the court again after the rest, no one would have been much surprised to see Borotra tire or to see Vines's strokes begin to flash and sparkle as they had at Wimbledon. Borotra won the first game on his own. serve. The match stopped while policemen interrupted a fight in the grandstand. Vines won three games. Borotra won them back. Serving at 4-5, Vines slammed his cannonball into the court but the clay made it bounce slowly. At match point, he netted a drive and ran up to the net to shake...
...making the new rate $3.20 against $3.40 yearly. Electric Power & Light Corp. passed second preferred and common dividends despite reported earnings of $9,265,000 for the twelve months ending March 31. Aetna Life Insurance Co. passed its dividend. American News Co. cut its payment in half. General Tire & Rubber passed its preferred payment, as did Associated Telephone & Telegraph, large independent. Another omission was that of Curtis Publishing Co. (Satevepost, Ladies' Home Journal, Country Gentleman) ; and shortly afterward Curtis announced a general 10% advertising rate reduction. Gloomy Chicago was cheered by the announcement that the three big Insull companies will...
...sides were not quite steep enough to provide good views of wrestlers, particularly wrestlers like Shikat and Lewis, who spent most of their time lying down in a flat impenetrable tangle on the ring floor. Shikat's idea was to evade Lewis's famed headlock, and to tire him with leg holds. Lewis got one headlock, then another, but Shikat broke them both. Presently, he took to cuffing at Lewis's jaw with his elbow. After an hour and six minutes of grunting and thumping, both had reached the crisis of exhaustion in which serious wrestling matches...
...recall. He remembered Frank R. Fageol, the Kent, Ohio bus builder who was a potent Equitable backer. But he did not remember Mr. Fageol's Vice President Charles B. Rose (now president of America-La France & Foam-ite Corp.) or President William O'Neil of General Tire & Rubber Co., both of whom contributed heavily to Equitable's $282,000 promotion fund. Two weeks before, Mr. O'Neil had testified that he and most of the Equitable promoters had joined the dapper Mayor at a merry "old clothes" party the night after Equitable's franchise...