Word: borings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speaker be stopped, or that the question in discussion be changed, subject always to previous motions that a given speaker, or a given subject, be allowed so and so many minutes. This would prevent what ruined so many Liberal Club meetings in the past, the combination of a bore and a communist, or several, monopolizing the discussion, and leading it along channels in which most of those present weren't interested...
...customary for a major Congressional bill to be prefaced by a patriotic statement of the reasons for its introduction, the ways in which the public welfare will presumably be benefited by its adop- tion. Last week a bill before the House for immediate payment of the Bonus bore the following preamble...
...Pretty, sharp-witted, she married Reed in 1917, followed him from Greenwich Village to Moscow, became a champion of the Bolsheviki, a close friend of Lenin. When Reed died of typhus in 1920, she wrote for Hearst, wangled the first interview from Mussolini. In 1923 she married Socialite Bullitt, bore his daughter Anne in 1924, was divorced by him in 1930 for "personal indignities." Thereafter, in constant financial difficulties, she made her home in Paris...
...disturbed even by man. Lazy and languid bulls fight with none of the ferocity of smaller seals. Delivered alive at a zoo, they fetch from $5,000 to $10,000 apiece, eat about 150 lb. of fresh fish a day. Goliath, not a circus sea elephant him self, bore a great circus name. Goliath I and II were famed troupers for Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey's Circus (TIME. April 18, 1932). Goliath III was last seen in the U. S. on Atlantic City's Steel Pier. Because he ate too much to show his promoters a profit...
...three-weeks' lapse in his letters from Europe. His shamefaced but still flowery explanation leaves a modern reader in doubt whether he had spent the interim in the gutter or had just not felt like writing: "After a time came rebellion and reckless grasping after life or what bore the semblance and wore the red flower of life, careless whether-nay, even glad if its heart were poisoned. I took-O sweet and noble soul, this will pain you cruelly, but I must tell it-I took the ring from my finger, for it burnt my flesh with...