Word: eate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...baton after three years of musical silence went wax-mustached Bandmaster Victor Aloysius ("Vic") Meyers, lieutenant governor of Washington. Said he, after leading his brand-new band in Seattle's Trianon Dance Hall: "It's all right to be lieutenant governor, but a man has to eat...
...newspaper advertising. There will also be radio programs, six trailers, a contest in which 5,404 people will win a total of $250,000 by answering questions about 30 films and writing a 50-word essay. Sample question: "What did Snow White's stepmother coax her to eat in order to cast a spell over her?-a mince pie, an apple, a strawberry tart, or a roast duck?" Sample essay: "Snow White made me feel like a child again. . . ." Print order for the 32-page contest booklet was 50,000,000, roughly one for every other person...
...campaign was billed as the first really cooperative venture in cinema history. Executive Chairman George J. Schaefer (United Artists) explained it as the same kind of campaign that gets people to eat more bread. Outside the industry it was conceded that if his salaryless committees made enough racket they might get enough new customers to pay their expenses. But no amount of racket would call off the Department of Justice's impending suit...
...chief interest in Biographer Pearson's own life is the period he spent as an officer in Persia during the War; he outstared and outran the natives, boasts of making tough army men eat out of his hand. Of main interest to the reader are his anecdotes of George Bernard Shaw, Chesterton, Frank Harris, Hilaire Belloc, Conan Doyle. The best of them-a sizzling dialogue, between Shaw and Chesterton, Frank Harris' belligerent interview with Galsworthy-are secondhand. Also among the secondhand are such random anecdotes as one concerning a friend of a friend who once found himself...
...Western Reserve University summer school in Cleveland, Isaac S. Metcalf Jr., writing a thesis on the subject of what minnows eat, discovered that the best way to get minnows for experiments was out of the stomachs of fresh fish, spent the summer fishing...