Word: clauses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston's Little Children's Theatre. Later Bosco Cass be came a performer in a Shubert musicomedy, a clothes model, a schoolteacher, a reader for a literary agent. Her notions for Tiny Tower she tries out on public school children. When they disapproved of a modernistic Santa Claus on the cover, she substituted an old-fashioned one, teasing a fox-terrier. To the first issue of Tiny Tower Bosco Cass contributed a song called Christmas Stars...
...aiming at "recovery without profits." Further music to moneyed ears was the proposition advanced in his Boston speech by budget-balancer Douglas that recovery necessitates "a free flow of capital into legitimate business enterprises." Both were generally interpreted as indirect assurances to the recalcitrant banking world that Santa Claus will probably bring Administration support for a change in the Securities...
Somerset Maugham is the fiction editor's Santa Claus. His stones are intelligent but not highbrow, well-made but not wooden, readable but not offensively scandalous. They are like the quiet but compelling conversation of a man who has seen the world and not missed much to the point. Sentimentalists find Maugham cynical, but in fact he is a psychological realist. Even sentimentalists find his common-sense melodramas refreshing after a surfeit of romance. This collection of stories is dedicated to one Ah King, a Onetime Chinese servant of Author Maugham's, who traveled with...
When Santa Claus arrives in Boston on Thanksgiving Day after a long hop from the frozen North, one hundred and fifty Harvard students, garbed in multicolored costumes and leading the weirdly shaped Tony Sarg balloons will be at hand to greet...
...Chicago, Mrs. Marjorie McKennon sued her husband Paul for divorce, charged that last Christmas he gave their three children gifts of money, filched it while they were asleep, told them next morning that "for some unknown reason" Santa Claus had come back for his presents...