Word: dress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...laughs in various parts of the theatre) wash their hands and face. Notice, mothers, how they brush their own teeth themselves. Before, you have seen the girls crawl, walk, and gibber but never talk; now for the first time Emilie, who is squeezing the toothpaste over the nurse's dress, will say "Mais oui' in French...
...haired Jew whom Mayor LaGuardia picked to be New York's Commissioner of Licenses when he turned Tammany out of City Hall three years ago. Since the power to license is the power to reform, Commissioner Moss, who is as notable for his integrity as for his dapper dress, lost no time suppressing shortweight ice dealers, market racketeers, dirty magazine publishers...
...business was show business. He and his brother, Benjamin S. Moss, were pioneer chain cinemansion operators, he coproduced a hit called Subway Express and for a long time was a prominent Theatre Guildsman. It was only natural that Commissioner Moss should concentrate his reform zeal on Broadway. He requisitioned dress rehearsal seats to all productions so that if a show was dirty it could be cleaned up without the furor of revision after the opening. He made all casting offices take out licenses, rid the city of unscrupulous booking agents. In 1934 he requested that burlesque houses tear out their...
...experimental hangar of a U. S. arsenal on an unnamed island off the Atlantic coast. It opens with a crucifixion, ends with a shooting. In the highly exciting interim a tough colonel from the Judge Advocate General's Department (Jack Roseleigh), who arrives by Coast Guard plane in dress blues fresh from a Washington dinner party to solve the first killing, beats the daylights out of the wrong man just because he has it coming to him and, before the wild night is passed, not only detects but executes the right...
Bogen knew their monopoly could not last, so while business was still good he sold his interest to Tootsie, started his own dress business. His partners, both lured away from other firms, were a crack salesman and a first-rate designer, Meyer Babushkin. As soon as he had picked the salesman's brains, Bogen froze him out. Thanks to Babushkin's ability and Bogen's shrewdness, the money rolled in. Meantime Bogen's mother began to worry about him, tried to settle him down by making a match with a solid, sensible Jewish girl. Bogen...