Word: booths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which are in use, is a room within a room, supported clear of the building floors by heavily padded steel springs, and sound insulated by three inches of rock-wool, 250 tons of which were used in all. Every studio has an observation room, a clients' (advertisers') booth and a control room, all shut off from the studio proper by three thicknesses of plate glass...
...staff writer; of pneumonia; in Washington. He covered the Madero revolution and the downfall of Huerta in Mexico, the World War on a dozen fronts, the Russian Revolution and the Paris Peace Conference. . He spent two years probing a rumor that President Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth had escaped to Texas and Oklahoma, finally reported the story a myth...
...Bentley, defunct since 1931. This year Rolls-Royce Ltd. have revived the Bentley as a name with even greater prestige among sportsmen than their own. Last week the King-Emperor's youngest son, Prince George, opened London's 27th annual Motor Show, lingered longest at the Bentley booth. Soon Rolls-Royce announced that their whole 1934 output of Bentleys had been sold "largely to private owners." despite the fact that the cheapest Bentley is priced...
...laymen who stuff themselves into full dress and go to sit with their wives at grand opera or concerts have such intellectual honesty and humility as patriarchal Lawyer Paul Drennan Cravath exhibited last winter. Lawyer Cravath is not "musical"' and, with the practical candor of Booth Tarkington's Plutocrat, he admits it. He felt that, as chairman of the Metropolitan Opera Company, he should understand more about what he sits and listens to. So all last winter he took lessons in appreciation from Pianist Olga Samaroff". So did 40 Junior League girls who in a few months lost...
...from Manhattan to San Francisco. Hard hit by the loss of this profitable trade, they expanded their grocery and restaurant business in the last decade, but at the first hint of repeal more than a year ago President Gordon Stewart began to renew his European contracts. Their gin is Booth's High & Dry, their Scotch Sanderson's Vat 69, their champagne Heidsieck's Monopole, their sherries, ports and Madeiras John Harvey & Sons'. When the Schulte interests sold Overholt and Large distilleries to National Distillers last spring. Park & Tilford received a big slice of the cash...