Word: attendance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mattered not that H. R. H. was in fact too hoarse with a cold to speak or even attend the Dominion Day dinner. He handed his speech to one of the very few friends he entirely trusts, his brother Prince George. Reading for the Prince of Wales to 500 astonished guests who included Secretary for the Dominions James Henry ("Jim") Thomas, Prince George roundly declared...
Long ago Bernarr Macfadden discovered that while a large audience will listen to lectures on whole-wheat bread, muscle-building and deep breathing, a much larger crowd will attend if the object on display is a nicely rounded female without too many clothes. Also he learned that a sermon on ethics will gain the ears of millions if the text is the parable of the stenographer who lusted for her employer. From these two truisms, aided by a complete lack of good taste, Bernarr Macfadden evolved a magazine publishing formula which made him rich. As years rolled by and millions...
...Flower. Not the least interested in the dedication were three Carmelites and one Visitation Nun. They were the surviving sisters of St. Thérèse of the Infant Jesus: Céline, 61; Léonie, 65; Marie, 78; Carmelites at Lisieux. Cloistered all, they did not attend the dedication, just as in 1925 they preferred not to accept the Pope's special invitation to the canonization of their sister...
...Heights last week journeyed 700 school and college teachers from throughout the land, to mark examination papers. They felt privileged and honored. They were housed in Columbia University dormitories, received $50 of their traveling expenses and about $15 per day for two weeks. Chief readers get $25. New readers attend a conference for instructions. Marking is to be fair, unbiased, for the College Board hears no appeals from its grades. A very good paper or a very bad paper is usually read but once. A paper near 60% is gone over thoroughly...
...Just before he died he mumbled: "I've got to live. .. . Gotta straighten this out. . . . They tried to wipe out my whole family, the dirty rats." Police learned that Gangster Higgins had boasted widely of his daughter's dancing, that at least 300 people knew he would attend her performance. A search began for Gangsters Salvatore Spitale and Irving Bitz, onetime "Lindbergh emissaries." Gangster Spitale broke a golf appointment, was nowhere to be found...