Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...depression years, when millions were relying on alms for life, bread and medical care, the idea of social insurance loomed ever higher as a vital need when the time should present itself for the country's reorganization. Though the proverbial horse had fled, it seemed better to lock the door once again than to forget entirely and to move on in willful blindness. Yet the idea then seemed too large, too radical, and it was argued that every cent available was needed for more urgent matters. Wages and profits together were low and any deductions for social insurance would have...
...found Grant and a brass band. For cinema patrons who like rollicking farce, Theodora Goes Wild amounts to a feast. It begins rollicking in Reel One, rollicks faster and more furiously from there on. Most rollicking shot: the wife of Theodora's publisher peeking out of her door to see her drunken husband and Theodora rollicking harmlessly on the floor...
...preparing for her next act, "but I've spent most of my life in St. Louis, I guess I'm just a natural dancer, for I've had rhythm ever since I can remember, and I've never taken a lesson in my life. We lived next door to a theatre manager, and he put me in a "Kid act" at the tender ago of 11. Gus Edwards saw me there, signed me up, and I've been on the stage ever since. I was in the last "Follies" that Mr. Ziegfeld produced, "Calling All Stars", "At Home Abroad" when...
Beginning today at Fogg Museum an exhibit of paintings by William Stanley Haseltine '58, whose murals on the door of Stoughton 25 have bolstered locally his international reputation, will be on display...
...Beethoven. To attract sincere music lovers and discourage the carriage trade, they held their prices down to $1.10 top, promised to get not the most noted performers but the most competent. Old hands predicted ruefully that they would run aground. Last week when the New Friends opened the doors of New York's big Town Hall, in surged 1,400 season subscribers and 75 others who bought their tickets at the door, all the hall would hold...