Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...grand total of bets. On the basis of these totals the totalizator automatically sets the odds. In "tote" or pari mutuel betting a percentage of the whole sum wagered is deducted as a fee. What remains is divided between those who have wagered on the winner. If only one person has bet on the first horse he gets it all. If 1,000 have backed the winner the winnings are split 1,000 ways...
...MacDonald decided last week that the very man for Laureate is a person whom Queen Victoria would certainly not have considered fit for admission to the royal household (her Laureates were Southey, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Austin...
...accounted for only by reason of the rule of damages enunciated by the trial court. . . . Judgment . . . reversed. . . . New trial." Wrong Picture. In Cuyahoga county, Ohio, last fortnight a Court of Appeals cleared the Cleveland Press of a charge of libel in mistakenly printing the photograph of a person other than the one described in the accompanying news text. Said the court: "There can be no damage because the language itself eliminates the plaintiff from any connection with . . the picture...
...faces. Instead of finding an actor whose physical equipment, intelligence and training fit him to play a given part, Eisenstein looks for a human being who will be the part, whose performance in front of the camera will not be acting but a continuation of the life which that person lives daily. It is a method which may meet difficulties in Hollywood where, in an actor-population, every successful "type" is inevitably an actor-type; but it is practical in a story like Old and New, dealing with an outstanding phase of Russian life, and taken on location...
...tight place, I could step on the gas, and I knew just what she would do, and she always did it. Owning that Packard to me meant being sure of having the car I liked best, having the exclusive use of it, being sure that no irresponsible person who had no stake in it would put it out of order, being able to take care of it and know that somebody else wouldn't bang...