Word: vis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mannequin (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). When Actress Joan Crawford, in the lithe chic of a $2.98 bathing suit, adjusts her shopworn profile to a summer night and sighs to her handsome vis-a-vis, "why do you suppose the moon is always bigger on Saturday night?," a million understanding shopgirl hearts sigh with her. And when, temporarily exalted to a swank Manhattan penthouse, Joan looks over the parapet at the twinkling city, "piled up against the dark," many a less lyric lass wishes that she, too, might sometime be so pent...
...steel industry for the first time in history and in a twelvemonth built a labor organization the equal of the old A. F. of L. in size and power, its superior in leadership. The measure of his achievement is that his two runners-up were his two visa-vis : 1) Chairman Myron Charles Taylor who without a blow being struck negotiated for the unionization of great U. S. Steel Corp. and 2) President Tom Mercer Girdler of Republic Steel who battled John L. Lewis to the last ditch and largely prevented the complete unionization of the steel industry...
...Young Marshal, as his public demands indicated fortnight ago required as hls personal profit out of the transaction that China reconquer and restore to him his Empire, or equivalent. This personal demand was inextricably mixed up with the issue of Chinese national policy vis-à-vis Japan...
Curious. Their nervousness passed after the pioneer autogiro, in response to insistent invitations, vis ited every one of Iowa's 99 county seat towns (and many another) giving Iowa and lowans a new concept of aviation...
...architectural talk. For the past year he played pinochle every Sunday night with Instructor Wilson. Last week, as George Archambeau went about his dusting, he gave a proud extra flick to a new bust in the Fogg entrance hall. It was himself, modeled during pinochle evenings, now set up vis-a-vis to William Crowninshield Endicott...