Word: benefits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...medicine last week, they were not only setting an example of leadership consonant with the Harvard medical tradition, but making a very definite contribution to the advancement of the practice in America. For while the proposals for the increased endowment of the art of healing by government for the benefit of the population do not represent anything new in the way of medical thought, the realization that immediate steps are needed to improve the condition of the "medically indigent" in the community demands that steps be taken...
Their first play on Broadway together was Sweet Nell of Old Drury, a salaryless Actors Equity benefit. Actor Lunt recalls it as his wife's first part as a beauty, in the role of Lady Castlemaine, remembers that they spent all their ready cash on fake jewelry to make her look more fetching. The acclaim for the new stage beauty was led by Mr. Lunt's deaf mother, Mrs. Harriet Sederholm, whose untempered voice could be heard quite plainly from the audience asking her neighbor, "Isn't she a dream...
Winner of the broad jump was Freshman Robert Partlow. Prominent in his class as a sprinter Partlow's best and winning jump was 20 feet. Runner-up was Fred Ulen '39, who, with the benefit of a 10 inch handicap was put down for 19 feet, eight inches. Paul Morgan '39, and Sparks Sorlien '39 followed third and fourth...
...Ormond exacted from Soprano Mario a promise. Three days later Patrolman Ormond called for Soprano Mario & accompanist in a limousine borrowed from an undertaker, drove her to Armonk under strong police escort, rapturously listened to Soprano Mario work off her fine in Strauss songs at a Policemen's Benefit...
Double Wedding (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Early in the proceedings Charlie Lodge (William Powell) analyzes himself for the benefit of audience and Margit Agnew (Myrna Loy): "I'll be quite frank with you. I suppose I'm what you'd call a cad." Besides a cad, one learns that he is an ex-Foreign Legionnaire, an ex-Paris tourist guide, an ex-husband, a part-time painter, a would-be cinema director. He lives in a trailer on a vacant lot next to a buffet known as Spike's Place. Spike (Edgar Kennedy) calls...