Word: counter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...willing to leave Holly wood. Mamoulian liked working with Negroes, had a steadfast admiration for the primitive tragedy of Charleston's Catfish Row. This time, though, his problem was harder. His actors had to be singers, trained to time themselves to the subtlest beat. To match the Gershwin counter point, Mamoulian planned counterpoint in movement which would have the effect of a dramatic ballet. Porgy was to start one song simply, with: "I got a plenty o' nuthin' and nuthin's plenty for me." As the tempo mounted and the crowd joined in, chairs were to rock faster...
...tell outsiders about the predicament he is in. A young Canadian named Richard Hannay (Robert Donat), he finds himself one evening, as the result of nothing more daring than a visit to a London music hall, entertaining in his fiat a girl who tells him that she is a counter-espionage agent protecting England from an international ring which is selling the secrets of the Air Ministry and that she has just committed a murder. Hannay considers this nonsense until the next morning, when he finds his guest dying with a knife in her back. Thus assured of her veracity...
...maintained regular dividends at 1929 levels throughout Depression, suddenly cut their quarterly payments one-third. Reason, Bankers Trust tersely explained, was "low interest rates and resulting reduced operating earnings." Because both institutions had earned their dividends in the first half of this year, their announcements gave the over-the-counter bank-share market a bad turn for a few days. The fear that First National, the "Baker Bank," would pare its $25 quarterly payment, sent First National stock tumbling $135 per share to $1,680. Not until Guaranty Trust, First National and other Manhattan banks declared their usual dividends...
...tried to steal a quick glance at my revolution counter. It was well over 3,400 revolutions a minute. I knew I was running 300 miles an hour...
Benito Mussolini stood last week four-square on a package of exploding firecrackers. Zing!-the British Navy blanketed the Suez Canal. Zip!-Italian submarines prepared to counter with "maneuvers" across Britain's communication lines in the Mediterranean. Pow!-Ethiopia's Emperor tried to hand over the better half of his realm to Standard Oil (see p. 23). And bang! bang! bang!-Italian guns fired live shells over Italian troops advancing in war games along the Austrian frontier, killing one trooper and wounding two others as they charged up a hill with the King and Mussolini looking...