Word: returns
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Boss Edward Hull Crump, of Memphis, Tenn.. once offered to guarantee a bright young Washington attorney a handsome law practice if he would settle in Mistuh Crump's town. All the lawyer had to promise in return was to develop an intelligent, invigorating opposition to the all-powerful Crump political organization. Nothing came of this ingenious idea for keeping the Crumpets in fighting trim, so Ed Crump had to go on putting up with Tom Collier...
...garden. To him, Agent Gould gave many presents from India's Viceroy Lord Linlithgow-a silver tea service, rifles, revolvers, a gramophone, a thermos flask, a signed photograph. Likewise, Agent Gould and his staff were on hand when the small 14th incarnation (or "Embodiment") made his ceremonial "return" to Lhasa. The boy surveyed the Britishers calmly, according to reports seemed to be trying to recall whether he had seen them before somewhere in his previous life...
...quite the box-office come-on she used to be, Miss West implements this return to her spiritual home in the gamy 'gos with the expert services of Director Edward F. Cline, the ex-Keystone Cop, who invented Bathing Beauties, and Producer Lester Cowan, who taught Hollywood (with You Can't Cheat an Honest Man) that Comedian Fields is at his best when he is playing Comedian Fields...
...stayed over a year. Then he went back to Derby, Conn. Patient as a camel, he chewed over his experience two years. As he wrote and illustrated Through China's Wall, he gained 75 pounds. He says he is not worried about the weight because he plans to return to China and live off his humps...
...decades, unless we return to savagery, the world demand for many non-renewable resources will be twice or thrice that of today," said Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, in a broadcast given on Saturday afternoon sponsored by the Guardian...