Word: attendent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...method the artist knows pretty well in advance of the season about how much his gross income will be and on the basis of such calculations he incurs obligations and budgets his own financial commitments for business expenses and otherwise. This plan contemplates that local managers become entrepreneurs. They attend to all the necessary local arrangements, sell the tickets and keep the receipts over and above their expenses. They engage in business for profit...
...want an automobile if you gave him one. A car in Mexico is a liability. If he is ill, his good wife who invariably knows a great deal about herbs can buy the required dose at the market for a third of a cent. This failing, he can attend a one-peso consultation held every afternoon for the poor by the very best surgeons in the capital...
...white collar people to do. For example, last week in Missouri a group of professional singers headed by Miss Edna Haseltine was hired at 35¢ an hour, sent out into the Ozark hills to give grand opera?only it was not called that for fear the natives would not attend. Admissions charged in different towns were turned back to buy materials for local CWA projects. Elsewhere unemployed musicians were hired to give public symphonies, unemployed actors to give public plays. Said Mr. Hopkins: "Great art ... is confined to a few people. If it is good for 20,000 people...
...citizenship." First issue of the Transcript after the sale urged its readers to use the same tactics in "the next round with the octopus." Editor Baker is campaigning for funds to defray legal expenses for 300 other water-rate strikers. Invited by the water company, after two denials, to attend a rate conference, Editor Baker refused to accept the settlement offer, has been barred from all future meetings. Meanwhile Editor Baker holds proxies for almost all the Transcript's 1,713 readers...
...time for all good men to applaud the sentiment which animates this pronunciamento. At the same time it may be regretted that the letter was not phrased with that strict regard for dignity and sobriety in expression which is to be expected from young gentlemen who attend classes in English at Harvard. It says, for instance...