Word: dreamed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Department against the Treasure Hunt was that its numbered tickets were designed to look like Irish Sweepstakes tickets, thereby deceiving customers. Also, the Department solemnly averred, the Hunt was "nothing but a guessing contest." The winner of one contest, named Irene Varga, reported that "she had a dream, or went into a trance, and while in the trance concentrated and the names of the pictures came...
...equipment consisted of a five-room headquarters in Washington's Willard Hotel, little or no money and an organization made up mainly of William Edgar Borah. One eager volunteer came around early in the campaign: snaggle-toothed Representative J. Hamilton Fish of New York. No candidate's dream of the ideal political ally is "Ham" Fish, the butt of many a Congressional jest, the ardent runner-down-of-Reds. The statesman from Idaho warily shook Mr. Fish's large, aristocratic hand, accepted his services but offered him no official campaign post...
...canvases shown were a succession of hulking figures, mostly nude and vaguely classical, painted in the earthy browns, yellows and reds of early Italian frescoes. Best of the lot was Mario Tozzi's solidly painted Farmer's Dream, a portrait of a plump, prosperous and sleepy-eyed husbandman, seated at a country café table by a jug of wine...
...than when the first gold rushers went West. Each studio has proven experts on its staff, men who really earn salaries running as high as $1,500 per week. RKO not only lured Berlin away from Broadway but it also has a special contract with Jerome Kern (Roberta, I Dream Too Much), pays so well for his curving melodies that he has already recovered the fortune he lost in Depression. Despite their rich earnings, Berlin and Kern have remained unaffected by Hollywood's glitter. Kern still refuses to buy a new hat, begs old ones from friends. Berlin declines...
...tailor's apprentice. When success first came to him in Hollywood he bought a lavish estate at Malibu Beach, four big automobiles. Brown's big song hits have been Singing in the Rain, Wedding of the Painted Dolls, Pagan Love Song, Broadway Melody, All I Do Is Dream of You, You Are My Lucky Star...