Word: cues
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enters more than one beauty contest. She enters a series of them promoted by one Muldoon (Sam Hardy) in various cities, always under a different name and always subsequent to having won over the local judges by her undeniable charm. It is then unscrupulous Muldoon's cue to offer her as the prize $1,000 or a non-existent ticket to Hollywood. Until the enterprising team reaches River Falls, Miss Damita habitually chooses the ticket to Hollywood, permitting her colleague to pocket the $1,000. At River Falls she asks for the $1,000, much to Muldoon...
...none too scrupulous stranger. When the stranger buys wine with his money, Ferraro does not object. When the stranger takes the liberty of inviting himself into the same hotel room, Ferraro remains tolerant. But when the stranger is mistaken for the tenor, Ferraro is delighted; it is his cue...
Another article which takes its cue from this side of the Charles is "College and the Poor Boy Is the Door Closing?" by R. T. Sharpe, secretary of Student Employment at Harvard. Probably the best essay is "A Squire's Complaint," by Walter Pritchard Eaton, the dramatic critic. Mr. Eaton raises his bitter pen against the defilers of our countryside, on the behalf of those urban people who desire to live in it. The government road-builders are shown to be the desecrators they are, and shoddy commercialism in excoriated. One would advise Mr. Eaton to give...
...Mary Capen; also with the fact that amateur performances rarely succeed in avoiding what for a better word one might call "foreshadowing." Either because of over-rehearsal or too great absorption with their own lines, certain members of the cast started gestures of reply ever before the question or cue had been spoken to them. Freshness and surprise in the repartee was as a consequence diminished...
Stocks took their cue from commodities, mounted moderately led by such companies as American Sugar (in hope of a sugar recovery), Homestake Mine (bigger profits in gold if the dollar is devalued), Corn Products (in hope of corn recovery...