Word: earful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Christmas Eve the President and Mrs. Hoover were giving a party to the children of his Secretariat. Dessert was just being served when Secretary Lawrence Richey whispered something in the President's ear. Quickly the President arose, put an overcoat on over his dinner jacket, hurried out of doors to see flame-shot clouds of smoke billowing from his office building, 200 ft. from the White House proper...
...that Senator Caraway had been so carried away he had no idea of what he was saying. The Dr. J. Clarence Sharp he thus addressed proved to be not only a white man but a man even whiter than sandy Senator Caraway-a blue-eyed, pink-&-white blond, an ear, nose & throat specialist of considerable reputation, one of the best "radical mastoid" men in the land, a gentleman of 69 who for years was a familiar figure on the socialite golf links of Piping Rock Club...
...revived it. For besides the stupendous detail and the baffling interplay of economic facts and factors, he had to cope with his foreign colleagues' temperaments. This called for rigid self-discipline of another, subtler kind. When Germany's bristling Herr Schacht came to get his ear privately after a day's sessions he had to convince himself and Herr Schacht that he was treating him exactly as though French Delegate Moreau were present. When M. Moreau came, similar convictions were necessary. In his preservation of the confidence of all the parties, in his resuscitation of their confidence...
...bred than most westerns-a nice library arrangement of the earnest hero, the fragile heroine, the cattle-rustling, halfbreed badman. Around these puppets the beautiful photography is like a shell on whose glazed surface you can see reflected the arch of a great horizon and which, pressed to your ear, records the rustle of the air's phantom oceans over the prairie land, sounds of rivers, birds, hoofs. Best shots: the steers in the rapids; three cattle-rustlers hanged, with horses for a scaffold; the shooting match between the Virginian (Gary Cooper) and the halfbreed (Walter Huston...