Word: director
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Joseph Adam, trembling, but courageous, facing an audience of long-bearded, rawboned (your own word), two-gunned, tobacco-spittin' individuals, booted and spurred and clad in chaps and ten-gallon hats, smelling unpleasantly of cattle. They have the noose ready and the tree all picked out in case Director Adam fails to please...
...Colonel Daniel MacCormack, Bostonian, hard working Director of Persian Internal Revenue, announced a standing offer by Persia to curtail her opium production 10% whenever the morphin, cocaine and heroin producing countries† should agree to a similar curtailment of their drug production. Said Colonel MacCormack: "We know that 5,000 tons of opium are produced annually throughout the world, while there is legitimate need for less than...
...Director General of Internal Revenue Alfredo Rioseco came home from his office at Santiago one night last week, ascended to his bedroom, took off his clothes, climbed into his bathtub, began to soak. . . . Beside the tub he had prudently laid out an automatic pistol-for times are strenuous in Chile (see below). Soon Señor Rioseco stood up and lathered himself. At that moment a soldier's gun butt crashed against the door. . . . Tough, the door held. The soldiers demanded of Señor Rioseco that he come out and submit to arrest. They shouted that...
...into a rickety automobile, sets out for California and better fortune. Literally, luck is with her, for the manufacturers advertise a huge reward for return of her car. It is the first they ever made -valuable, therefore, by way of contrast. In chasing the party across the continent, the director provides good farce...
This entire production, under the leadership of Serge Koussevitsky, director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, is the most difficult task ever attempted by the Glee Club...