Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Young Fortune Gallo clerked in an Italian bank in Manhattan, collected bills for a gas company, managed a small brass band, then bigger bands which he took touring throughout the U. S. In 1910 he organized his opera troupe. The second season's deficit ($700) he swears was his last. But Gallo worked hard to convince small-towners that opera is not a rich man's bore. One of his converts was the late Warren Gamaliel Harding, then a country newspaper editor, who reluctantly accepted free tickets, heard his first performance when the San Carlo visited Marion, Ohio...
Meanwhile 204-lb. British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin was showing 185-lb. Benito Mussolini, whom most Britons consider a "Big Bully," how to be a Bigger Bully while remaining every inch an English Gentleman...
...Italo-Ethiopian War spectre looked like the rosiest kind of good news to the businessmen of Japan last week. As the War bogey rose bigger & blacker in Europe, traders on the floor of the Tokyo Stock Exchange hugged themselves with joy, deliriously bought & bought. One day transactions reached an all-time high: 1,166,000 shares. Next day Tokyo trading went through this roof to 1,183,000 shares. At week's end practically every stock on the list had risen from...
Almost finished last week was one of the most worthy Work Relief jobs undertaken in New York City, the remodeling and landscaping of the Brooklyn Museum. Because the Department of Buildings demanded bigger & better exits for a building through which pass 1,000,000 visitors a year, Relief labor was set to work last spring tearing down a useless monumental stairway, turning a badly designed auditorium into a new entrance hall and special exhibition rooms. Both were sufficiently advanced last week for museum authorities to mail out 5,000 invitations to a private view this week of the new rooms...
...been a chair of "English Literature", as he explains, "the term 'English' being considered clastic enough to cover both linguistic and literature courses. As "the successor of Ticknor, Longfellow and Lowell" Bliss Perry recalls an uncomfortable feeling that the public was getting the impression that Harvard was landing a bigger fish than it had actually caught. Barrett Wendell, who had complained about the abuse of Presidential power in making the appointment, was too honest to pretend to welcome Perry to Harvard. At their first meeting afterward Wendell launched into an attack on Byron's "Vision of Judgment", famous parody...