Word: vet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...treaties would lead to a disagreement among the allies, and hence play into the hand of the enemy. Anyway, Wilson was sure that U. S. economic power was such that "when the war is over we can force them to our way of thinking." At such naïveté, or was it conceit?, how Balfour must have laughed up his trim cuff, Clemenceau up his wrinkled sleeve...
...Request. Bill Abbott (Elliott Nugent) is a tanktown newsman summering in Manhattan for business reasons. Claudia Wynn (Verree Teasdale), a blandishing literary agent, wants to cut capers with him at Bar Harbor. Just then Mrs. Abbott (Norma Lee) comes bringing her fetching naïveté from the plains and salvages her husband in two acts of dubious psychology. But if the psychology is brittle, Mr. Nugent's comic gaucherie is quite successful. He elicits considerable amusement despite a trite plot and an uneven script. Furthermore, Miss Teasdale is as lush a blonde as one is likely...
...that the so called Mencken school has developed. It is perfectly natural to criticise American Rotaryism, religious Ligotry, and other popular foibles, vet whenever anyone does it, Mencken is immediately blamed or credited, because he was the first to find similar faults glaring enough to attract attention...
...Laval sextet is a new one to Boston audiences, and vet in 1909 a game was played between Harvard and Laval in the rink then in the Stadium. Harvard won 3-0, in what is reported to have been a very close encounter...
...duties were easily and responsibly transferred to Dr. Reid Blair, a Philadelphia-born veterinarian with a McGill University training and a splendid War record as chief "vet" with the Fourth Army Corps, who has been Dr. Hornaday's second-in-command these four years. But the Hornaday personality and reputation are not to be duplicated in every generation...