Word: current
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sunday evening, December 8, at 7.30 o'clock, the orchestra of the Pierian Sodality of 1808 will give the first program of the current season in the Living Room of the Harvard Union...
...Vatican City last week one prelate firmly said: "Etiquette decrees that a Catholic sovereign must kneel to the Pope and kiss his toe." But among Fascisti belief was current that His Holiness will decree a special exemption in favor of Vittorio Emanuele, "King by the Grace of God and the Will of the People...
Above is last week's schedule?the ninth week of the fourth season of Manhattan's Civic Repertory Theatre. It is a sample week in the current career of that theatre's galvanic founder-directrix, Actress Eva Le Gallienne. Monday and Saturday nights she was the dour daughter of a Russian steward. Tuesday she was a sleek and satined marquise. Saturday she was Peter Pan both morning and afternoon, zooming on concealed wires out over the heads of gasping, wonder-struck children...
...late last week predicted the break was over, that 1930 would provide a slow rising market with small volume, easy money. A broken sage was Charles Amos Dice, famed market student, who early in October published New Levels in the Stock Market, showing prices would fluctuate around the then current prices, never dropping below the Dow Jones average...
Wags. Wall Street has long had its own private store of wisecracks, but not until this year did stockmarket gags glut the revues and become current at U. S. dinner tables. Upon a tense, avid public, the market break released a flood of cracks, good & bad, new & old, clean & smutty. Foreign visitors, expecting a glum, panic-stricken people, were amazed to find a new joke for each new catastrophe. Among cracks more or less good, new, clean...