Word: chain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...real estate and theatre promoter. In 1924 he went to Manhattan for a rest, sold West Coast Theatres Co. to William Fox, was retained as Cineman Fox's chief fixer. He was mainly concerned with accumulating properties for Fox Theatres Corp. A shrewd, able negotiator, Fixer Blumenthal piled chain upon chain. He it was who negotiated the famed $50,000,000 Loew's deal for William Fox. Natty, chipmunkish Fixer Blumenthal boasts that after months of dickering he was finally able to close the deal because he correctly interpreted scraps of a conversation he overheard between two foolish...
Engaged. William Barry Wood Jr.. 21, of Milton, Mass., high ranking Harvard scholar, member of Phi Beta Kappa, and captain of the 1931 Harvard football team; and Mary Lee Hutchins, Phi Beta Kappa from Vassar. where she led the daisy chain...
...intent, many of its entries will seem ludicrous to serious-minded Americans. Contributor Walter Prichard Eaton, described in the blurb prefacing his article on "The Scenery of the United States" as "an artist who paints with words," paints the following unforgettable scene: "From the western slopes of the Appalachian chain, the water drains to the Mississippi, and the great plains begin." Authoress Faith Baldwin, introduced by Author Achmed Abdullah, writes of "Love and Romance," estimates that Colyumist Dorothy Dix is the best public advisor on such tender themes. Contributor Edward L. Bernays, writing the blurb for "Women" innocently observes: "Forty...
TIME isn't so smart after all. Richard Whitney wears a little pig on his watch chain (TIME, April 25)- not because he is a fancier of fine hogs - though he may be-but because he is a member of Harvard's famous Porcellian Club. Members of the seven "final" clubs at Harvard wear such things-an owl for the Owl Club, a fox for the Fox Club, a fly for the Fly Club, a bull for the A.D. Club...
...fact that . . . the quality of the entertainment is very often poor, and the overload of advertising little short of exasperating," Montreal's Daily Star remarked that "Radio is not a necessity of life," questioned whether Canada in the present depression can afford to build an estimated $5,000,000 chain of high-power stations and switch to broadcasting of a higher type...