Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inaugurated" by sad-eyed, droop-mustached French President Albert Lebrun, but last week 160 pavilions were complete and the Exposition was all but finished. Wiseacres agreed that a solid month of sightseeing would be necessary to make a thorough job of Paris 1937 and that this week the one word for it was "SUCCESS...
...thrash Cashier Norton as a "peeping Tom," Last week Defendant Elder told the court that Accuser Norton haa always been a "Jekyll and Hyde character," prone to bursts of hysterical repentance. Accuser Norton, asked whether he bore "enmity" toward the defendant, answered reflectively: "I don't like that word 'enmity.' It doesn't describe the feeling between...
...that of pre-War Russia and accusing U. S. mission boards of "building battleships for Japan." David Colony also made his way to Harrisburg for a hearing on a Sunday cinema bill, cried: "I am willing to stand in my pulpit and compete with Mae West, and if the Word I preach isn't more attractive than the swaying of hips I am ready to go back to the coal mines...
...midsummer, Frank Bacon was playing Lightnin' to jammed houses, Fay Bainter was filling standing room in East Is West, something called Nightie Night was opening that very evening at the Princess, and eleven other shows were doing adequate hot-weather box office. At 8:20 p.m. word was flashed along Broadway, with Broadway's customary flair for the spectacular, that "Lightnin' has struck!" Then, one after another, in the Shubert, Playhouse, Lyric, Astor, Knickerbocker-in all but one of Broadway's showhouses-lights were dimmed and the customers were told to go home. There would...
...puzzle, not a surrealist limerick, the foregoing verse is a sample of the 50 "charades" contained in this second book of poems by the famed, well-beloved 77-year-old senior master of The Hill School, Pottstown, Pa. The whole word, obtained by guessing the first, second and third syllables, is "nightingale," but the sly author makes his readers work even harder to be sure of this. His 50 answers at the back of the book are written in cryptograms, and "nightingale" reads ezulnzeuowr...