Word: earning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Russell Markert still helps direct the Rockettes, helps work out their routines, which are divided between classical and tap dance numbers. Between their four shows daily he manages to sandwich rehearsals for new numbers. There are 46 in the troupe, but only 36 dance at one time. Rockettes earn $48.50 a week, dance three weeks out of four. The average Rockette stands 5 ft. 4 in. She may be anywhere from 18 to 23. Six of the girls are married, four engaged. There are more brunettes than blondes, three redheads. Few Rockettes are ravishing, because Markert cares more about legs...
...name Adam Denhardt was called, he stepped up to become a Master of Arts. What made Master of Arts Denhardt remarkable was not his age (64) but the fact that so far as could be determined he is the first public school janitor in the U. S. to earn a graduate degree...
...Pulitzer Prize, twice for biographies (Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, 1922; The Training of an American, 1928), once for history (coauthor with Admiral William Sowden Sims: The Victory at Sea, 1920). Keen observers of the current literary scene considered that Bulwark of the Republic might well earn Author Hendrick prize...
...news of the ensuing riots and bloodshed the reading public will feel, in all likelihood, a wave of resentment against John Lewis and his group. When a country topples slowly into economic chaos no one thinks to improve his condition by refusing to work. Work and the chance to earn an honest living appear as the greatest benefits to mankind and woe to him who willfully throws up this Godsend to baggle for more money or shorter hours...
Behind Harding, Richard Howard Sullivan of Marietta, Ohio and Joseph Spence Harvin of Fort Worth, Texas, placed second and third to also earn places on the new 1937-38 Student Council...