Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...longer coveted her neighbor's name, President Walker with a splendid gesture passed over to the Hollywood camp a box inscribed, "Culver City presents to Hollywood the Culver City-made Selznick International Picture, The Prisoner of Zenda. Before anyone could say Selznick he plunged a shiny hatchet deep in the moist cement. Ten minutes later, The Prisoner of Zenda opened at the Chinese Theatre...
...fuller appreciation, a wider recognition of the fine principles, the high sportsmanlike standards of business as now carried on in England, Europe as a whole, and in America. For we are sportsmen, we men of business. . . ." Subsequent columns dealt with such topics as "Sliding on the Surface or Digging Deep?'', "What Lands Us in the Rough of the Game of Life," "Thinking Constructively.'' Readers who plowed through these lush homilies generally concluded that Harry Selfridge was about to extend his operations to Manhattan. Last week Harry Selfridge, still pert and lively at 79, declared, "There...
Jews are the world's biggest consumers of onions and there are more Jews in New York City than anywhere else in the world. Therefore Manhattan is the world's onion capital. There in a slick red and white office with a deep onion aroma, at 40 Harrison St., works sleek, well-fed Benjamin Balish, 41, who bears the proud title of U. S. "Onion King." Last week Ben Balish, after years of distinguished partnerships, completed arrangements for going into business solely for himself...
...thousand 12-oz. wine bottles, duly corked and sealed, bobbed placidly this summer on the rolling bosom of the Pacific. Only too glad was the California State Fisheries Laboratory, which released them from its ship the Bluefin, to have lucky fishermen find them floating in the deep. For the bottles which contained not wine but sand and a return postcard, were released to test the ocean drift which carries the pelagic eggs and larvae of sardines. Last week it was reported that only 150 bottles had been found. The farthest traveler had drifted 400 miles south, to Lower California...
...result of his wound, he still wears an aluminum kneecap, grafted bonebits here and there, as well as a score of body scars. (A deep scar on his forehead is not war-gotten, but the mark of a bathroom skylight that fell on him.) He claims to have learned more about war from his post-War reporting of battles in the Near East than he ever did through his own soldiering. This reporting was done for the Toronto Star in the early '20s. Hemingway was by that time married (to Hadley Richardson, childhood Michigan friend), comfortably established...