Word: booths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...success of General William Booth Enters Into Heaven after 1913 lifted him to an eminence almost as unhappy as his isolation had been. After his marriage in 1925, the responsibilities of a family wore on him heavily, since even at the height of his fame he could earn only $1,500 a year. With only $76 in his possession, $4.000 in debt and with a wife and two children to care for, he grew increasingly melancholy, developed delusions, sometimes heard voices plotting his death. He believed that the Jews were responsible for his failures, grew increasingly violent as he denounced...
...visit of Sergeant Jurney and his entourage was to the Mayflower Hotel suite of Hopson Lawyer William A. Hill. There was no answer to their knock and the manager opened the room to prove it empty. As they left the hotel a newshawk spotted Mr. Hill telephoning in a booth. In full cry the pack swept across the lobby, carrying curious bystanders with them. The embarrassed lawyer retreated into the bar, where he accepted a contempt citation from Mr. Jurney, said he did not know where his client was but when they met would tell him that the Senate...
Alice Adams (RKO). The tests of time and translation into cinema have had an unpredictable effect upon the Booth Tarkington novel which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1922. Then it was a sad little story about a small-town girl so ashamed because her parents were poorer than those of her friends that, when a glamorous visitor fell in love with her, she destroyed her one real chance of happiness by carrying on an absurd pretense of being richer and more popular than she was. Nowadays,, because people whose circumstances are as comfortable as those of the Adams family seem...
...object is to wheedle the buyer into visiting his firm's showroom. Such an excursion will never take her outside the area bounded by Seventh Avenue, Madison Avenue, 30th Street and 42nd Street. At the manufacturer's showrooms the buyer may spend a whole day in a booth inspecting dress goods, sometimes on live models. She generally visits four or five showrooms before placing her orders...
Vermont has 429 clergymen, of whom less than 10% are Episcopalians. Last week Vermont Episcopalians met to choose their sixth bishop, successor to Rt. Rev. Samuel Babcock Booth who died last June. In four ballots they eliminated such of the 42 Vermonters as had been nominated, went outside the State for the third successive time, elected Rev. Dr. Joseph Wilson Sutton. 54, vicar of Trinity Chapel, Manhattan. Vicar Sutton learned of his election with surprise while vacationing in Mexico...