Word: boomerism
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Depopolis (a restaurateur), and Horatio K. Boomer, who acts and sounds W. C. Fields in carnival pitch, are various voices of Radio Actor William Thompson...
Died. Howard Earle Coffin, 64, cotton textile manufacturer, boomer of Georgia coastal resorts, onetime vice president of Hudson Motor Car Co. and member of the Wartime U. S. Aircraft Production Board; when a loaded rifle he was appar-ently cleaning for a deer-hunt went off; at Sea Island Beach...
...rising 47 stories from Manhattan's Park Avenue, opened its urbane revolving doors just in time to let in the cold whiffs of Depression. Three years later the hotel owed $3,385,000 in back rent to the New York Realty & Terminal Co. and tall, plump President Lucius Boomer had to handle a strike of restaurant workers (TIME, Feb. 5, 1934). Last week two celebrations at the Waldorf gave evidence that after three more years its staff and management were at least happy together. In the Empire Room for three days there was an exhibition of 300 pieces...
...President Boomer's idea, the art exhibition was suggested by a 29-year-old German girl named Maja B. (for Johanna)* Geek, a secretary in the Waldorf's foreign department. Herself the owner of an inn in Baden-Baden, placid Miss Geek has been greeting German, French and Italian visitors for the Waldorf since 1932. She arranged her first Waldorf workers' show last year, but that was small pumpkins compared to this. Silver plaques and cash prizes ($10-$2.50) were awarded in four classes: culinary art, art work, needlework and miscellaneous crafts. Judges included President Jonas...
...York at the Turn of the Century," it presented: a 1902 single-cylinder Oldsmobile, driven by a couple in dusters, goggles, veils, and beside it the elegant open caleche of Mr. Harris Fahnestock containing a frock-coated dandy and his feather-boaed wife. A tandem bicycle with a boomer girl in front, a Norfolk-jacketed scorcher behind. An exhibition of the iron-clad blue serge bathing suits suitable for Far Rockaway in the days of Theodore Roosevelt. A genuine Morris chair, a cylinder phonograph, a pianola. Photographs of Olga Nethersole as Sappho, Ethel Barrymore in Captain Jinks, Maude Adams...