Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only in a pecuniary sense is the aviatrix pursuing a wise course. The surest way to kill the insatiable demon of publicity is to give it all it wants and more--to attend receptions, have pictures taken, and appear on the stage until the demand, disgusted with such easy prey, turns to more elusive subjects such as the reticent Mr. Coolidge or the secretive government of Rumania. With her contract in vaudeville finished, as well as her connections with movies, beauty clays, and other such gold mines, Miss Elder may retire, as safe from the headlines as the pilot...
...club is setting a precedent this year by running its play in Cambridge on four consecutive nights. There has formerly been a break of one evening in the Brattle Hall performances, but the inability of the club last spring to meet the demand for tickets for its presentation of "The Taming of the Shrew" in modern dress has warranted the new policy...
...York Evening Graphic, juicy gum-chewers' sheetlet, recently offered $50,000 in a cinema title contest. Certain aspects of the replies prompted them to demand an inquiry. Chief Assistant U. S District Attorney G. J. Mintzer inquired; unearthed a "puzzle trust...
...demonstrated by physiological chemistry, that alcohol is a normal constituent of the brain tissue," stated Dr. Charles Alfred Lee Reed, University of Cincinnati professor emeritus of gynecology and onetime (1900-1901) president of the American Medical Association. He went on: "When this supply runs low there is a natural demand for alcohol as such." His declaration was reply to two papers on the subject, which had just been presented...
...explaining the work, Professor McLaughlin emphasized the fact that present mines are being exhausted, while the demand for metals in increasing, and that without positive ways of knowing where, and in what quantities, hidden deposits lie, millions of dollars would be wasted in fruitless digging...