Word: defunction
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...birth, however, a reunion of dowdy royalty takes place at Frau Lucher's hotel, where once nothing was too good for them. Habsburg and ex-mistress attend. In Frau Lucher many a spectator could catch the likeness of eccentric old Anita Sacher, at whose Viennese hostelry defunct Austrian nobility used to be lavishly entertained free of charge to the envy and sometimes inconvenience of more wealthy paying guests...
Louder, Please. So well has Playwright Norman Krasna, onetime office boy for the defunct New York Sunday World, observed the greased-lightning satires of Ring Lardner, George S. Kaufman and Charles MacArthur that none of these practitioners should be ashamed to set their names to Louder, Please. It is a good imitation of the sort of thing that blasted audiences out of their seats several seasons back when Lee Tracy, he of the sunken cheeks, long legs and yellow hair, was romping through Broadway and The Front Page. Happily the services of Actor Tracy have been secured for Louder, Please...
...lonely cabin on Paradise Lake near Seattle, police found E. V. Maltby, onetime wealthy vice president & general manager of the defunct Rural Grain Co. of Chicago. He had grown a beard, stocked the cabin with provisions. He was held in Seattle jail for Chicago authorities on an indictment charging nine violations of the Grain Futures...
Founder & editor of The Current Jewish Record is frail, earnest Sidney Wallach, 26, lately managing editor of the defunct Jewish Tribune. For active associates Editor Wallach enlisted Rabbi Louis Israel Newman as an authority on religion; Harry Schneiderman, assistant secretary of the American Jewish Committee (of which the late Louis Marshall was president) as an expert on Jewish foreign affairs; and Dr. Israel Schapiro, chief of the Division of Semitic & Oriental Literature of the Library of Congress, authority on Jewish scholarship...
...Manhattan, indictments on misdemeanor charges were issued against Joseph A. Broderick, State Superintendent of Banks, and 28 officers and directors of defunct Bank of United States. Mr. Broderick was named in three charges of neglect of duty and conspiracy in keeping the bank open. Asked if he would demand Superintendent Broderick's resignation, Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt said: "Certainly not, I have every confidence in his complete integrity...