Word: beste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Disadvantages of U. S. music films at present: 1) Their fidelity is poorer than that of the best discs; 2) the mechanism which plays them makes a noise; 3) high price of film makes film recordings four to eight times as expensive as phonograph discs. A more important obstacle: a sudden change from disc to film recording would dislocate the $36,000,000 record business, make all present phonographs, record collections and recording apparatus obsolete...
...bond issue. Foe of competitive bidding, Wendell Willkie had already arranged to have the issue handled by conservative Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc. and Bonbright & Co., Inc., who step out one door when competitive bidders step in at another, holding that both investor and issuer are best served by honest, astute, noncompetitive handling. Since the Consumers Power stock issue is small potatoes to any underwriter, there was a shrewd suspicion that Mr. Eaton was really aiming at the bond issue (on which the banking fee at 2% would be more than $500,000), rather than at making a raid on Commonwealth...
...wire-haired terrier named Asta (formerly Skippy) was the best canine actor since...
...Best shot: Richard and Mord drowning the Duke of Clarence, Richard's brother, in a vast butt of malmsey-bibulous Clarence's favorite tipple-with beautifully bubblous sound effects...
...Beerbohm, Symbolist Poets Verlaine, Mallarme, Rimbaud, as well as the poetry of Stephen Crane, the fiction of Henry James. They published one of the first (and still classic) examples of the new realism, Harold Frederic's The Damnation of Theron Ware. Their designers were (and still are) the best in the country: Bruce Rogers, Updike, Goudy. A little heard-of French painter named Toulouse-Lautrec made an advertising poster for them. The Chap-Book started the vogue of Little Magazines (then called Dinkey Magazines), germinated the Chicago literary "renaissance of a few years hence. Meanwhile in Manhattan, old-line...