Word: corking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late Florenz Ziegfeld. This picture cost about $1,400,000. A chorus which is probably the handsomest ever assembled for the cinema appears twice: in the dormitory of a girls' school, then in a Mexican cabaret where Cantor hides under a table and puts on black face with the cork from a champagne bottle...
...modern Harvard undergraduate would have been the food and dining facilities. The charge for board at "Commons" was $1.75 a week, and as it couldn't be expected that meat could be served at every meal, the students, therefore, frequently saved some of their meat and with a Cork jammed it against the under side of the table to help out a breakfast the following morning. The food that was not eaten or could not be eaten was shared by a number of pigs, whose sties were near the rear of the dining hall...
...Portraits de peintres, Les plaisirs et les jours) were comparatively slight, attracted little attention, he was always taking notes for his Big Book, eventually filled 20 huge notebooks with material. After his beloved mother died in 1905, Proust retired from society, set to work in earnest. In his famed cork-lined (soundproof) room he lived, an invalid-recluse, for the remaining 17 years of his life, occasionally venturing out again into society to verify a point in his reminiscential writing, often summoning his fashionable friends to question them about so-&-so's gestures, the material of so-&-so's gown...
...government of long-necked Eamon de Valera was accused by the governors of the Cork North Infirmary last week of withholding nearly $2,600,000 due to Irish hospitals as results of the last three Irish Hospitals' Sweepstakes (on the November Handicap, the Grand National, the Derby...
...weeks at Chicago, Wall Street experienced a flurry in the shares of companies most likely to be benefited by a change in the law. The group of stocks Wall Street has come to call the "Wet Shares" includes Owens-Illinois Glass Co., National Distillers Products, American Commercial Alcohol, Crown Cork & Seal, Park & Tilford. Neatly timed to coincide with the Wet flurry was a $1,000,000 offering of shares in a brewery, the first sale of a brewery stock since...