Word: adds
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...were quite definitely having sabotage trouble as well as other kinds. While they retreated from the Greeks through Albanian mountain passes around Corizza, the Italians were sniped and raided by rebel Albanian guerrillas. Many little groups of four or five guerrillas in the frigid, snowy hills were said to add up to a large force commanded by former Albanian Major Ali Mehmed, who fled his native country when the Italians took over in 1938. Major Mehmed was reported to have returned to Albania quite recently by parachute from an unidentified plane...
...ordered to put a birdcage over his head, sing Listen to the Mocking Bird. More terrifying was the experience of a gentleman who had to lie on a bed sheet in the middle of the studio stage and pretend to be a male seal wooing his mate. To add zest to his performance, a real seal was quietly placed beside him which barked happily down his neck. For thinking up such consequences, listeners are paid...
...from higher-cost mines. The chief pressure in behalf of this cause came from the Mountain States, which have already used pressure to get silver, wool and sugar profits with Government aid, have done handsomely by themselves in Washington. The chief argument against it: a 2? price increase would add $48,000,000 (for 1,200,000 tons) to the U. S. economy's copper bill next year...
Whether Mrs. Carter was a great actress or a notorious curiosity is still a moot point among theatrical greybeards. Warner Bros., rather than classifying Mrs. Carter, merely add another volume to the screen's countless observations on show business. Out of a welter of stock theatrical characters, only Rains's David Belasco and a blustering boardinghouse keeper played by Helen Westley emerge entertainingly. Claude Rains draws a penetrating bead on the egotistical Broadway impresario. Helen Westley's corned-beef-&-cabbage exterior provides many a welcome guffaw...
...must lengthen the working day, and add to the inducements by increase of overtime wages. We must go into high gear...