Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...torture unto me; Moo, cows, moo; Croak, frogs, croak; Make life a hell ; 'tis all we ask of thee. Nominee Thatcher was first elected to the House ten years ago. In Georgia, Charles Robert Crisp, Congressman famed for his courageous fight for the sales-tax (TIME, Aug. 8 et ante) fought Governor Richard Brevard Russell Jr., famed as one of 13 living brothers & sisters, for a seat in the U. S. Senate. Mr. Crisp said he would never have run "had I known in advance that my character was to be so severely impugned at the hands...
...sudden. The blessed event which now delights silk men really began last February when the U. S. style buyers found nothing to excite them at the Paris salons and bitterly said so, threatening never to come back. Oh, please come back next summer! begged Vionnet, Lanvin, Patou, Schiaparelli, Chanel, et al., and promised faithfully to have something that would surely start a U. S. fad, a wave of buying under the irresistible pressure of Fashion...
...play opera on the organ. He also composed there, trying out orchestral effects with the stops and filling the house with his big voice. After graduation he organized the Princeton Conservatory of Music. The Princeton Orchestra still plays as something of a tradition the symphonic poem Le Cure et le Mart (The Priest and the Corpse) which an amiable French professor accepted in lieu of thesis when Bob Crawford was in danger of flunking the course...
...trail of woe left by the late Matchmaker Ivar Kreuger widened last week to include the eight U. S. directors of International Match (TIME, March 21 et seq.). After months of inquiring into the financial and personal history of Matchmaker Kreuger, Oscar W. Ehrhorn, Federal referee in bankruptcy for stricken International Match, authorized Manhattan's Irving Trust Co. as trustee for the company to sue the directors for an accounting of $100,000,000 allegedly lost through their negligence. Irving Trust charged that an additional $35,000,000 was dissipated in 22 illegal dividends paid out of capital, sued...
...restaurants are the Question Mark, the K-9 Club. Schlogel's in the Loop, Ballantine's on Rush Street and the Round Table in the basement of a butcher shop on Chicago Avenue. Since the great days when Poet Vachel Lindsay. Novelist Theodore Dreiser. Dramatist Ben Hecht, et al. worked in Chicago, Chicago's Bohemia has declined...