Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first ten days of Spring and Fall showings are secret affairs, by invitation only. Prior to this there are even more exclusive Private Views, with champagne and salad at the bigger & better houses, a custom begun in 1921. Jean Patou, as every schoolgirl knows, has an elaborate modernistic cocktail bar, free to customers, favored friends and to all comers admitted to an Opening. To Jean Patou first flocked last week's observers...
...Bigger Army. Finally, he announced his intention of increasing his "field army" from 2,000 to 2,500, at an additional annual expense of about $2,000,000. Asked if more agents would not mean more cases for the already congested Federal courts, he said that the new policy of not prosecuting petty cases would relieve congestion...
...executives, last fortnight Cyrus Stephen Eaton's smart attorneys ferreted a phenomenal fact from Bethlehem's President Eugene Gifford Grace. In 1929 he received a salary of $12,000; a bonus of $1,623,000. Elated at this success, last week the Eaton attorneys went for bigger game. If Mr. Grace received $1,623,000, how much might not Chairman Charles Michael Schwab get? But while the figure was successfully disclosed, it proved no point. For Mr. Schwab's stipend is a modest $150,000 a year, less than is paid many a lesser tycoon...
...their talents by the ancient bitterness between Senator Allen's Beacon (an evening paper) and the morning Eagle published by the brothers Victor and Marcellus Murdock. For years the Brothers Murdock had eyed the profitable afternoon field. On March 28, 1927 they sprung a surprise. An Evening Eagle, with bigger headines, blacker type and more pictures than Wichita had ever seen, burst upon the city unan- nounced. A crew of newsmen had been housed in a hotel where the first issue was prepared in dead secrecy...
Battalino v. Fernandez. In his home town, Hartford, Conn., where he can draw bigger gates than anywhere else, Christopher ("Battling") Battalino, feather weight champion of the world, windmilled rapid, clumsy punches at the jaw, stomach and heart of slit-eyed Ignacio Fernandez, a Filipino who once knocked out Al Singer (see above). In the second round Battalino hit Fernandez in the ribs, doubled him up, then knocked him over with aggressing right. Like a fighter who has not trained and cannot, stand the slightest body punch, Fernandez went down five times more in that round, but stayed conscious till...