Word: borings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...social worker, wanted $300 for a tuberculosis shack on the Brandywine. She persuaded the Philadelphia North American to publicize a small seal sale. She realized $3,000. That was in 1907. The National Red Cross snapped up the idea. Until 1919 the Christmas Seals were called Red Cross Seals, bore that organization's bold Grecian red cross and signature. The seal sales, however, hindered Red Cross collec tions for its own purposes. So the 1919 seal also carried the double-barred Lor raine cross, symbol of the National Tuberculosis Association. Since 1920 the seals have made no reference...
...says: "They wear nothing but their trunks." Commenting on a Japanese prizefight, he imitates a radio announcer, ends with, "Graham McNamee announcing." There is no pun about Chinese junk. Pictorially, Around the World in 80 Minutes is nothing much. But the cinema has always before treated information as a bore; travelogs have almost without exception been sad and spiritless products proving, to the accompaniment of chop-suey music, that all Chinese look alike. This travelog is a novelty because it is witty and de luxe, the record of a trip which must have been fun and of a personality which...
...history. Meanwhile U. S. citizens, alarmed at the spectacle of vanishing gold and failing banks, began to hoard, putting a severe and needless strain on the banking structure. When National Credit Corp. was announced (Oct. 7), foreign bankers misunderstood its purpose, sold dollars so heavily that the pressure bore the appearance of an attack...
...giving New York the most widely discussed wedding it had ever known. The two cousins Gertrude and Consuelo have remained good friends, but their enthusiasm for Society fiestas was permanently dampened. Cousin Gertrude married her neighbor, handsome, polo-playing Harry Payne Whitney, inherited a great deal of money, bore him three children and became vitally interested...
...incredible magazine which is now Ballyhoo was in preparation. Publisher George T. Delacorte Jr. wondered what to call it. He and Editor Norman Hume Anthony favored Hullabaloo for a title but were afraid it might infringe on the rights of Cartoonist Peter Arno whose book of last year bore that name. So they agreed on Ballyhoo. Discovering later that there was no objection to the use of Hullabaloo, Publisher Delacorte decided to have another magazine with that name before someone else could start competition to the astonishingly successful Ballyhoo (current issue: 1,750,000 copies). Following the basic idea...