Word: amalgamation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fair attendance picks up, a few of the showmen may yet make out, but already two major enterprises have folded, the $300,000 Cuban Village and the Savoy blackface show. Broadway's shop talk, an amalgam of arithmetic and intuition, last week held: 1) that unless Fair attendance looks up, the amusement area as a whole may lose $5,000,000 before closing; 2) that any profits worth talking about so far had been rung up by three concessionaires: Frank Buck's monkey mountain, Jungleland; Life Saver's Parachute Jump; Billy Rose's Aquacade. Housed...
Spite and silver were the amalgam holding together last fortnight's Senate coalition of Republicans and hard-money Democrats which furiously filibustered the Monetary Bill beyond midnight of June 30 when Franklin Roosevelt's power to pare the dollar died and with it the Treasury's exchange stabilization fund. Silver and pressure were what Franklin Roosevelt used last week to split the coalition, pass the bill, revive both fund and power...
...Rockefeller-financed amalgam of three old Negro schools (coeducational Atlanta University, Spelman College for women, Morehouse for men), the new University of Atlanta is one of the proudest centres of Negro education in the U.S. With 1,300 students, $2,000,000 worth of sound buildings and a $7,000,000 endowment fund, Atlanta has had everything but a president since pioneering Dr. John Hope died last year. Last week this want was filled by the election of 37-year-old Dean Rufus Early Clement of Louisville's Municipal College for Negroes...
Straight out of James Oliver Curwood is the character of the sturdy civilian overseer who sympathizes with the newcomers but scorns them as failures, thinks them something of a blight on the rugged country he loves. Inspired by a blonde who acts like an amalgam of Joan of Arc and a visiting sociologist, the men "come to their senses" when their children fall sick by the dozen. They put up a hospital in 24 hours (offstage). The overseer changes his mind about having them sent back, sits down to talk over development plans. Near the final curtain, inevitably, a colonist...
...crowd, usually greedy for "color," that curious amalgam of arrogance and nonchalance, this time preferred Oldster Hoppe's quiet manner. At first he justified its hopes, led Cochran by seven points. Gradually Irishman Cochran regained his skill, his orthodox playing succeeding where his opponent's daring wizardry just failed. Superstitious spectators thought Hoppe a sure winner when he reached ''king row" (40th point) ahead of Cochran, groaned when a minute later he miscued. Cochran, now bubbling with confidence, soon completed the match with an unfinished run of seven, prevented Hoppe from fulfilling a ten-year dream...