Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ballyhoo's heyday Editor Anthony wrote a musical show, also called Ballyhoo, which profited from the magazine's popularity. Wracking his brains for a new magazine idea, he hit upon the reverse procedure. With Hellzapoppin still a sellout after eight months on Broadway, Norman Anthony offered Producers Olsen & Johnson half a cent a copy for permission to use the title for a magazine.* Having little ready cash, he got a printer and a paperseller to take a chance on three issues, bought $300 worth of art, then sat down in his room in the Parkside Hotel and wrote...
...Juan, P. R., Judge Robert Cooper asked an eight-year-old witness: "Do you know what an oath is? What will happen to you if you tell a lie?" The boy: "I'll get warts." The Judge: "I think he is qualified...
...battleships awarded went to the Brooklyn and Philadelphia Navy Yards, giving navy yard ways five out of eight U. S. battlewagons now on order...
...tern. For a year Chicago waited to see who would get the permanent post. Last week the Exchange's governors settled the question by upping Vice President Kenneth Lloyd Smith, 35, a conservative wheelhorse. His experience: four years in the office of Illinois' Secretary of State, eight years as assistant secretary of the Exchange...
...agents who examined the location of the fire hinted arson, but contemplated no action because of the little damage done. Police were inclined to think that the fire had resulted from spontaneous combustion originating from the organization's library of ancient jokebooks, which are removed from the cellar only eight times a year...