Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...face and an American name began to fiddle his way into the big money. Critics on two continents praised young Alexander ("Sasha") Culbertson for his silky tones, liked him best in Bach. But Sasha was not satisfied with himself. In 1926 he canceled 31 U. S. engagements, broke a contract to make phonograph records, sailed for Europe. In Paris he settled down with his bride of two years to study all over again. There and in Berlin he worked hard, eked out a meager living from music lessons. Last week he walked timidly onto the stage of Manhattan...
...capture the University too completely. The whole program should be run as an amateur hour. Listeners in each city could telephone their choices to a central office or telegraph direct to Cambridge. Each week's winner should get a free trip to New York and a three day contract at the Radio City Music Hall. President Conant should be on hand at all times to give the gong...
...appear in the U. S. for the first time. Many critics declared it better than its celebrated copy. The lead is played by the experienced European actress, Paula Wessely, who fully equals Actress Rainer's performance but is unlikely to equal her rise, for she refused a Hollywood contract...
...authorities on utility depreciation. For ten years he was first vice president and treasurer of Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co. in Atlanta. Now in his eleventh year as executive assistant to the Stock Exchange Committee on Stock List, Mr. Hoxsey leads a meticulously rational life. Before taking up contract four years ago he made a close study of all the systems, decided that Milton Work's was the best. When he saw the Culbertsons beat this system he suffered the pangs of the defeated. His forehead cupped with silver hair, tall, mild, bespectacled Mr. Hoxsey afforded Senator Wheeler...
Coach Harman is a onetime University of Pittsburgh footballer, onetime coach at Haverford and the University of the South, now under a new three-year contract at Pennsylvania because his last season was so successful. His team talk, continually revised, shows Biblical as well as football sense. Excerpts...