Word: backing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...troupe later with Bob Fitzsimmons); and he learned the tricks of tunesmithing. This trade paid. In his time he has turned out 28 musical comedies, has written, among his 500 songs, such daisies as Goodbye, My Lady Love, What's the Use of Dreaming?, Central, Give Me Back My Dime. Married seven times, he made-and spent-$1,500,000. Somewhere in France Is the Lily, a World War occasional, brought him $50,000. I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now, his most-famed favorite, sold 3,000,000 copies, still brings in royalties...
...Back in court was tomato-nosed Funnyman W. C. Fields, trying again to sidestep payment of Dr. Jesse Citron's $12,000 fee for treating a bad case of broncho-pneumonia in 1936. In the first trial the doctor claimed that Fields got sick from drinking too much ("about two quarts a day"). Said Funnyman Fields: "It was two other diseases. I've never been sick from drinking whiskey...
...financed by the sale to the public of $3,550,000 of 6% first mortgage bonds, $2,643,900 of 7% cumulative preferred stock, 100,000 shares of no par common (current price $3.75). Although funded debt has been reduced by almost one half, Marion owes $1,619,388 back dividends on her outstanding preferred. Two years ago net sales of $6,174,822 gave the firm a $338,191 net profit; last year the company was back in the red, almost $500,000; last week Marion's big, handsome, conservative president, James Hatton Waiters, a crack salesman...
...same day Mark, having located the town by the postmark on his mother's frightened note, goes to interview the Commissioner of Secret Police. The Commissioner, soft, dreamy, epicene, watches Mark's pleading as if it were a boring play, tells him to come back Wednesday for information about his mother. Mark does not know that Emmy is to be executed Wednesday morning. But then Mark meets the Countess and his real excitement begins...
...rakish stride figured in all of the scores. Four times he was on the tossing end of conceded touchdown pass plays, having Joe Gardella, Gene Lovett, Charley Spreyer and Jim Devine on the receiving end. After they had eluded the secondary, Coach Dick Harlow's whistle brought the ball back to midfield each time...