Word: autumns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Situated across the street from the great French Lick Springs Hotel belonging to Indiana's late Democratic Boss Tom Taggart, Brown's prospered. Spring and autumn, businessmen and politicians of the Midwest flocked to French Lick to drink Pluto water, rest, golf, enjoy themselves losing money at Brown's. Illinois' politicians still confer there regularly...
Last week, Edward Ballard, retired, had a son a senior at Yale, a daughter in the Bennett finishing school (Millbrook, N. Y.), and he and his wife were enjoying their usual autumn holiday at Hot Springs, Ark. In a bedroom of the fashionable Arlington Hotel he met the one-time associate of his Florida days, Silver Bob Alexander. That afternoon the double zero of life's roulette wheel came up for Gambler Ballard: Alexander, 33, was said to be down on his luck, bitter against Ballard, whom he had unsuccessfully sued for $250,000 for breach of contract...
Basically, however, the upward bound in stock prices last week resulted from the complete removal of uncertainty. The underlying processes of making and selling the nation's goods had passed through the autumn without faltering. The outlook was promising regardless of elections. Businessmen might not like the results but they at least knew now what they were in for. A closer contest, a stronger minority in Congress, might have left room for doubt. While a few soothsayers remained to croak, "Just wait till two years from now," the majority of Wall Street jumped straight aboard the Roosevelt landslide, ready...
Choosing performers shrewdly, presenting many of them (e. g., Jeritza, Lily Pons, Flagstad) when they were hot spot-news has done much to keep up Merola's prestige. But, though imported singers are headlined, home talent has its chance. Last autumn San Franciscans had reason to be proud of Josephine Tumminia (TIME, Dec. 9), a local barber's daughter who will have leading coloratura roles again this season. After La Juive last week critics praised John Howell, a local baritone...
...underlying the use of sliding seats in shells avails little in passing Physics C laboratory requirements. Similarly, lengthening of reading pariods will help group one students to cover their special assignments flawlessly, even if it does aid those cursed with a wider lazy streak to make up for long autumn weekends spent at scattered points along the Atlantic Seaboard...