Word: chain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about his queer hieroglyphics, suspected him of spying. Banker Otto Hermann Kahn was responsible for the Nijinskys' release. He wanted the Diaghilev Ballet to come to New York and he wanted Nijinsky. But Diaghilev never forgot his grudge and Nijinsky's wife blames him for the long chain of misfortunes which so unnerved the dancer that he was completely taken in by the mystical doctrines preached to him constantly (his wife says) by two of Diaghilev's henchmen.* Nijinsky's insanity showed itself when he took his family to Switzerland to rest in 1918. He became...
...since 1909, when Manitoba Rap began the fashion, the national champion ship has been largely an affair for pointers, though a setter, Feagin's Mohawk Pal, won three times (1927, 1928, 1930). This year it looked as if a setter might come through again. Louis M. Bobbitt, a chain drugstore man from Winston-Salem, N. C., one of the first amateur handlers in years to go up against the professionals in this stake, was there with a flashy little setter called Sports Peerless who won the gallery's fancy with his cautious wiggling and creeping when close...
...boomed again after the quiet interlude brought by storms and bitter weather. New England merchants reported a gain of 8.9% for February but the average gain for the U. S. was estimated to be 20% to 25%. Springfield (Mass.) reported a jump of 62%. ]. J. C. Penney's chain stores reported sales for the first two months up 41%. S. H. Kress sales were up 30%, Great Atlantic & Pacific up 5.18%. Montgomery Ward reported another roaring month in February with sales up 52.2%. Their retail stores showed an increase of 29.9%, their mail order division 80.7%. General Motors...
...major importance among the finding of the Fogg museum's archeological expedition to Yuge-Salvia are a Roman military road and a chain of forts built by the Emperor Trajan early in the second century. This Investigation, whose results have been announced this weekend, was conducted during the summer and fall of 1933, under the direction of Dr. Vladimir J. Fewkes and Rober W. Shrich, assisted by two attaches of the National Museum in Belgrade...
Best Production: Farewell to Arms (Paramount), Cavalcade (Fox), 42nd Street (Warners), / Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Warners), Lady for a-Day (Columbia), Little Women (Radio), She Done Him Wrong (Paramount), Smilin' Thru (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), State Fair (Fox),'Henry the VIII (London Films-United Artists...