Word: choruses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...committee. Several months ago, a professor at Columbia University declared that all persons who whistled with their lips were morons. This was merely an ingenious method of getting his name in print before publishing one of his books. The manufacturer of a patent reducing medicine hired 40 New York chorus girls and, after dividing the city into zones, sent them on a circuit to all the drug-stores, where they bought tooth-paste, aspirin, etc., and finally asked for the reducing product. If the store did not have any in stock the girls dramatically refused to make any purchases...
...starts the day with his pal as a well-bearded young vagrant recently released from "the jug". By discovering a travelling salesman's suitcase, which provides him with a clean suit and a "wad", he becomes a gentleman for a day. He meets Joan Blondell, a stage dancer (or chorus girl) who needs sixty dollars to reach her troupe in Salt Lake City and plays "Santa Claus for once in his life", unaware that Dr. Bernard, a fiendish old pervert in love with Joan is following them. Lady Luck further sets the stage when Doug's pal finds a check...
President Hoover last week ended his third year in office by working through his usual daily routine. Democrats at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue celebrated the occasion in the Senate by excoriating the Administration. Jouett Shouse of the National Democratic Committee added his voice to the carping chorus by broadcasting a speech in which he declared that at Valley Forge and on Feb. 12 the Presidential addresses had eulogized Herbert Hoover almost to the exclusion of Washington and Lincoln. Concluded Mr. Shouse: "Is it any wonder that an Ohio newspaper recently said he had better be watched at Easter...
When the excitement was at its height, a police lieutenant, backed up by two patrolmen, arrived on the scene. By the simple means of threatening arrests, the autos were finally moved, and the attached car, followed by a chorus of onlookers disappeared...
...experience in the Army Intelligence Service, he telephoned small Carl Byoir, publisher of the Havana Post and Telegram, with whom he worked when Mr. Byoir was on George Creel's Committee on Public Information during the War. (Mr. Byoir likes to tell how he once set a chorus of 600 U. S.-born Slovenes to singing their national anthem on a mountain behind the Italian front and caused 60,000 other Slovenes to desert from the Austrian army...