Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tumult-creating Catskill resort entertainer who clowns around the clock to keep hotel guests amused...
...shirt industry is showing signs of wear around the edges, now that the wartime shortage is over, and Shirtman Phillips could not have picked a better time for something new. He is an old hand at new selling tricks. A grandson of Founder Moses Phillips, he stepped into Phillips-Jones's presidency in 1939 at a time when the company had just turned in a loss of $937,186. Its stock, which had once sold at 98¼, had sunk to 2¾. At 36, Phillips knew plenty about the shirt business; for 15 years he had clerked...
Plainly, the world was hungering for entertainment. Last week the Department of Commerce had figures to prove it: in 116 countries around the planet, the last two years had seen a sharp overall rise in movie theaters, from 78,974 to 90,097. Seating capacity had soared from...
Like almost all its predecessors, Two Worlds assembles the members of a family in an English country house around the turn of the century and sets them to betraying to one another their inexhaustible human capacity for loyalty and treachery, frankness and cant, courage and cowardice. Its theme, painfully learned by all concerned, is the old, grim and simple text: "Judge not, that ye be not judged...
Chaste Miracle. After that, Stanley Banks must have withered fast, because his family scarcely noticed him at all for the next few months. He was always somewhere around, though-in his wife's way, under the florist's feet, beneath the caterer's contempt-with his hand in his wallet and his heart in his mouth...