Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...completeness in your Music department? You claim to "note the noteworthy" in record releases. Yet in your July 4 issue, you fail to mention the Franck Sonata in A Major for piano and violin, superlatively played by Rubinstein and Heifetz...
From 1915 to 1927, declared Mr. Hull, Mexico seized 161 "moderate sized" properties of U. S. citizens. "Not a single claim has been adjusted and none has been paid...
Some months ago in a Hollywood café, a prospector let Cinemactor Errol Flynn fondle a gold nugget, sold Flynn on the idea of spending $17,000 to send him in a specially purchased plane to Alaska to work the claim. Last week Hollywood heard what happened: 1) the gold mine was a fake; 2) the prospector had flown the coop; 3) the smashed plane had to be abandoned; 4) Alaska had a newly christened peak. Name: "Flynn's Folly...
Till his 65th year, Philadelphia Author John T. McIntyre wrote gimcrack historical novels and Broadway melodramas. Then he staked a claim on Philadelphia's underworld and immediately struck pay dirt. The minor crooks, racketeers, pickpockets, cardsharps, pimps, stools, finks of Steps Going Down (1936) and Ferment (1937) were as tough as shoe leather, as American as a tabloid. In Signing Off, however, Author McIntyre's claim begins to look as if it were rapidly being worked...
...same weary way of repeating themselves, the same facility in wrecking automobiles, the same batlike blinking bewilderment, when some thing new appears. When Decline and Fall, published in 1929, won extraordinary acclaim for its 25-year-old author, critics said that Waugh looked like England's strongest claim to a first-rate satirist. As it was followed with weaker tales, perfunctory travel books, a pious biography of Elizabethan Edmund Campion, and as Waugh became more interested in politics, his novels became more like those of an ax-grinding P. G. Wodehouse...