Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...most worstest fight" he ever fought. But what griped him more than his own shortcomings were his opponent's antics. "He's jes' a clown," he muttered. "I ain't never had no man kiss me before like Go doy did. I thought he was in there to fight me, not to play a love scene...
...seemed a little unsteady on his feet, but Taximan John Forney thought nothing of that. At night in Manhattan lots of people are unsteady on their feet. The man hailed Forney near Ninety-Sixth Street and climbed into his cab. He asked hoarsely to be taken to Bellevue. Forney changed his mind, then. Bellevue, the grim collection of buildings where innumerable sordid little dramas of the city have ended, is perhaps the most famed municipal hospital in the U. S. Many drunks are taken there, but they seldom go voluntarily. Forney decided there was something else wrong with his fare...
...handful of the 10,000-odd stockholders of Aviation and Transportation Corp. Gathered in its boardroom in the Corporation Guarantee & Trust Co., they helped elect three new directors (one of them bristle-maned ex-Champ Gene Tunney), asked a few questions, went their ways. Question none of them thought to ask was one that has been kicked around in the flying business like a sandlot soccer ball : what is ATCO going to do about simplifying its corporate structure...
...pale spirochetes of syphilis without killing their victim. Warner Brothers have long been afraid that the bullet might ricochet from the Hays Office, the State censorship boards, the U. S. cinemillions conditioned to regard any mention of syphilis as indecent. Consulted in advance, after a fortnight's solemn thought the Hays experts spoke. Their verdict: the word syphilis must be mentioned as seldom as possible in the picture; on no account must 606 be used in the title; where possible, other terms must be used...
...distinction of race, of colour, or of professed belief or opinions" is entitled, he declares, to: 1) security; 2) education; 3) a job he likes; 4) free trade; 5) private property; 6) freedom of travel; 7) protection against imprisonment; 8) fair trial; 9) protection against violence; 10) freedom of thought...