Word: pregnantly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Every once in a while there breaks a news story so pregnant with sensation that city editors lick their chops and fervently mutter, "Oh, boy! That's made to order!" The trial of a "lovely society heiress" for the murder of a "noted architect," with a "beautiful nightclub dancer" as star witness for the prosecution would be just such a story. Last week Hearst's New York American was full of it. But the story was literally made to order-an ingenious new circulation stunt...
...long enough to make one's fortune. Everyone works as hard as possible, for as few years as possible. . . . You live there, you whistle, you answer 'O.K.' to everything, and you only die at the last moment, very quickly. You aren't born there (a pregnant woman is never seen in the streets); and you don't die there either. As soon as anyone has breathed his last, he is immediately driven off very fast in a Packard to the funeral parlor, where he is laid out and painted up. So, if ever...
...love with the boy, but the doctor was too strong for her. The boy found them one morning in her room. He went away to Germany, and was killed in a Communist uprising. The doctor and the girl came back to the U. S. When she found she was pregnant she agreed to marry him. But by some near-miracle the child turned out to be the boy's; in spite of the doctor they were together again...
...expense as his gift to the city. There is nothing niggardly about the Barnard Arch. Critical eyebrows raised slightly to learn that it is to be of blue tombstone granite, 120 ft. high, 60 ft. wide, covered with an intricate icing of nine-foot, white marble figures: nursing mothers, pregnant women, soldiers, supermen. Over the top will go a rainbow of colored mosaic glass...
...offstage strips the play of vigor. The main events are thus approached obliquely. When Miss Claiborne Foster wishes to convey the idea that her rich lover has deserted her, that her employer-the proprietor of the drugstore in which she works-has consented to marry her though she is pregnant, the action must be signified by speeches to her fellow-guests in the waiting room of the hostelry...