Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first to the supplementary spring season. True to his word, the first big production experiment was last week's Bartered Bride in English. Word leaked out from rehearsals that it was sure to be a rattling good show. The Marie was to be comely Muriel Dickson, who built up a following when she sang Gilbert & Sullivan with the D'Oyly Carte Company (TIME, Sept. 17, 1934). Her lover Hans was to be Tenor Mario Chamlee, who sang under the old-time Metropolitan regime.' Surprise came at the performance when Basso Louis D'Angelo, long confined...
...time wealthy Horseman Thomas Fay Walsh to help her pick the best. First important Dibble acquisition was Flowing Gold, who set a record for saddle horses by winning 18 championships in one year. Six years ago Mrs. Dibble purchased a 2,400-lb. cream-&-red coach called Valiant, built 75 years ago in France for the late William Tiffany. Unfortunately Mrs. Dibble's desire to be the first U. S. woman to drive a coach-&-four in competition was discouraged at first by managers who welcomed the contraption to their horse shows...
...suite (a "suit" not a "sweet," in the furniture business) by Berkey won a gold medal at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876. After that, through the American Victorian, Eastlake, Mission and the Golden Oak periods, Berkey and Gay and the other firms which grew up around it built up Grand Rapids as a home of honest craftsmanship, if not of inspired design...
...told you the story of it. It's all mixed up and about an aviator and a beautiful society femme and a despurt killer and a G-man and forced landings and lots of horror and comedy in rapid alternation. Yet in spite of its handicaps the movie built round the story comes very close to excellence because of the great acting of Fred MacMurray, our choice for All-American Role-Transcender. Fred gets rotten parts most of the time and the way he just thinks nothing of it and goes right ahead and does a grand job of acting...
...Conant's faculty, if built on this double standard, would be one capable and active theoretically in increasing the knowledge known to man and in transferring this knowledge to students. In order to increase the research angle, an arrangement has been made whereby anyone on the faculty with a three year appointment (or more) can secure a year's leave of absence on full pay for study on some special subject. Thus the definite aim here is to raise the scholastic standing of Harvard...