Word: comeback
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three years have passed since the Jooss dancers first visited the U. S., failed financially in spite of the indelible impression left by The Green Table, a scathing satire on the men who promote war (TIME, Nov. 13, 1933). Last winter the Jooss group staged its comeback, thanks in part to the booming interest in ballet. This year its tour will extend to the Pacific Coast, later on to the Orient...
...haven't already been won over, go to the show for the sake of the program, which you can't very well get otherwise. It was written by a clever man whose wit was just a bit too fast for him. A sample: "as fast on the verbal comeback as a handball...
...long as possible. In the hope that doing so would prove a profitable venture, 20th Century Sporting Club dug up Schmeling who, since losing the title to Jack Sharkey and being thrashed by a second-rater named Steve Hamas, had stayed in Germany, making tentative gestures toward a comeback. What sort of chance fight experts and their audience thought Schmeling had was last week shown by the odds, 10-to-1, and by the comments of famed prizefight reporters. Samples...
...Washington three years ago and asked Senator Harrison for a job, he was politically down & out. With an old trouper's generosity, Pat Harrison lent Bilbo money to live on, got him a $6,000 job clipping newspapers for AAA. In 1934 Bilbo saw a chance for a comeback, returned to Mississippi to try for the U. S. Senate seat held by Hubert Stephens. Loyal to his junior colleague, Senator Harrison backed Senator Stephens let him have most of the Mississippi patronage available that year. When Bilbo won, Harrison, though not fond of him, saw the wisdom of renewing...
...every three for Edge, Duffield, Conklin, surpassed Fort 3-to-1. Nevertheless, final results added little to the Governor's prestige. The Landon slate beat the Borah slate 4-to-1. Among Landon delegates-at-large, however, Hoffman ran fourth, 50,000 votes behind Oldster Edge, whose comeback raised political eyebrows. Recognizing the rebuke, the Governor announced with unaccustomed modesty that he would not aspire to chairman the New Jersey delegation at Cleveland, resigned that post of honor to Mr. Duffield...