Word: actes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wrong twice. Mme Bradna told me at a cocktail party recently that she and her husband had a trained dog act. Had Olympe been born of a bareback rider immediately after a performance, it would have been picturesque indeed! Secondly, the theatre is the well-known Olympia...
...Maritime Law: An act of the master or crew of a ship detrimental to the interests of the owner...
...President Roosevelt were to find that what is going on in the Far East is a war, he would be obliged to apply to it the provisions of the rickety Neutrality Act. Therefore, in explaining to the press why all 7,780 Americans in China had been warned to get out as fast as possible or stay at their own risk, he described the Sino-Japanese situation not as a war, but as an awful mess. As to applying the Neutrality Act, the President was still on a 24-hour basis...
Rollicking along a New Jersey road one dawn three years ago, President George D. Strohmeyer of Childs Co. (restaurants) and some elated friends spied a sign: Maridell Inn. They tore the sign down, made a bonfire of it. Caught in the act by a policeman, they then split a fine of $75 plus $19.50 costs. This week Childs's President Strohmeyer again made news with a restaurant sign. This time, instead of tearing down an old one, he hung a new one: The Host, Incorporated...
...Brothers Samuel and William Childs with $1,600 capital. Farm boys from Bernardsville. N. J., the Childs Boys, irked by eating in dirty hash-houses, decided to offer the public something cheap and clean. While public clamor for sanitary improvement was building up to the Pure Food & Drugs Act in 1906, Childs restaurants mushroomed, their slogan "The Nation's Host from Coast to Coast," their symbol a pretty girl making wheat-cakes in the window...