Word: worded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last word in something or other was provided by Jay Norwood ("Ding") Darling in a nationally syndicated cartoon titled "Halloween...
...general psychology of our Chinese people today can be described in one word: listlessness. Our officials tend to be dishonest and avaricious; the masses are undisciplined and callous; adults are ignorant and corrupt; youth becomes degraded and intemperate; the rich become extravagant and luxurious, the poor become mean and disorderly...
Ohio. When Franklin Roosevelt stumped Ohio, he said not a word for his supposed Democratic liability, Governor Martin Luther Davey. Polls which gave the State to Roosevelt unanimously indicated that, after many a run-in with the New Deal, aggressive, unpopular Governor Davey was about to be returned to the private life of a tree surgeon by Republican John W. Bricker, State Attorney General. Apparently they were unanimously wrong...
...James Barrie made the treatment from which Screenwriter R. J. Cullen wrote the scenario. Said Cinemactress Bergner: "I would like you to believe that we have made the film with love and with reverence. " . . We have had slightly to cut one or two of the longer speeches, but every word that we have left out has only been left out after argument, quarreling, and occasional tears." To highlight his wife's performance, Director Czinner saw to it that other roles, like Laurence Olivier's Orlando, Leon Quartermaine's Jaques, were played in a more subdued...
...more interest, therefore, centers upon the elect few who are already in college. Those men selected were to be, ideally, not only students of the first rank but also social beings in the fullest sense of the word. The record of the Prize Fellows of the Classes of '38 and '39 lends some color to the original optimism. The men are, with but a single exception, in Group III or better. As for extra-curricular activity, they average higher than "the typical Harvard student", but not as conspicuously as might be expected. A further statistical break-down shows...