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...dreary marital vicissitudes of the "vacantly beautiful" Yolaine Randall and her equally vacant husband prove at least one thing- that vacant they probably deserve each other...
Your critic's verbal sideswipe was obviously an attempt at tin-pot philosophy, concocted from a vacant mind and a typewriter with keys. Has he ever been drunk for 16 years? Has he ever had to fight with anything outside of an empty tube of toothpaste...
...October 1928 the ministry at Borley parish had stood vacant for some time. Borley Rectory, a rambling, ramshackle Victorian barn of a house, sprawled on an Essex hillside, had little to offer the wife of any rector. Its roof leaked; its plumbing was in hopeless disrepair; its corners and closets were cluttered with the detritus of ages; rats and mice infested its secret corridors; and many of its rooms were unfurnished. To the Rev. Guy Eric Smith, a man of middle age newly ordained to the ministry, all this was of little account-a parish was a parish. But what...
...thus making proper replacement even more difficult than it would be normally. "If the librarian requires top-level professional assistants," says Mather, "he will be told by the division that he cannot have them because the mental hospitals do not have assistants in their libraries. When a professorship becomes vacant in the history department, and we want to use the money for that professorship to improve the geology department, we cannot do so if the division does not approve. And usually it doesn...
TRUSTBUSTER Stanley Barnes wants to leave the Government for the security of a federal judgeship. A Los Angeles County judge before he went to Washington, Barnes would like to go back to California, assume the seat now vacant on the Ninth Circuit Court bench on the West Coast...