Word: boss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Warner). This story is taken from a musical comedy popular several years ago -something about a football player who had gone into the bond business, and his boss, and the boss's wife, and his secretary. There were good tunes in it; you heard them wherever you went to dance that summer. The tunes are gone from this version, also the chorus with big hats and little parasols, but the musical comedy atmosphere is left, inconsequential and agreeable. Before the football player has married the secretary and escaped the trap the boss was laying for him, you have stopped...
Died. Mrs. Adele Wilson Pringle Taggart of French Lick, Ind., daughter-in-law of late Boss Democrat Thomas Taggart; at French Lick...
...came back to The Herald at $18 a week on a hunch. Soon after that The Herald, in new hands, was shy an editor. Vandenberg hung up his hat in the editor's office, brushed his cigar ashes in the editor's tray and announced himself as the new boss. The owner let him stay as a penalty for his impertinence; but in about three jerks of a lamb's tail he had the weakling Herald on a money-making basis...
...Steel") Stalin is relentlessly pursuing. If the rationing system pinches Russian stomachs, then that also is part of the, plan, anticipated by Dictator Stalin and the Communist Party and to be borne stoically by Russians until Oct. 1, 1933, if necessary. For until that date the Soviet Government and "Boss" Stalin have thoroughly committed themselves to an economic problem which is to transform the Soviet Union into an industrial giant, nourished during the next four years by a 24-billion-dollar investment in factory equipment. Of this huge sum 78% is being spent on machines to make machines, only...
William A. Grew is the playwright who prepared this gallimaufry of old notions. The ancient, familiar ingredients are many in number, confused in arrangement. The Girard family wants to marry Daughter Geraldine to her diamond-studded admirer, Mark Chandler. He happens to be the boss of both Father Girard and of William Wells, a callow underling whom Daughter Geraldine really loves. If Daughter Geraldine marries the importunate Chandler, it will mean limousines and regal delicacies for all. But if she marries the struggling Wells, according to her ambitious mother and young sister, the frustrate Chandler will immediately oust his successful...