Word: experts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some foreigners saw a grim humor in the President's implication that debtors must stop extravagant expenditures for armaments if they want consideration from the U. S. The President drafted his message before he left Washington, turned it over to the State Department for expert combing. It was forwarded to him at his Manhattan home where he signed it immediately after his return from reviewing a U. S. fleet on which he is spending more money than any other U. S. President in peacetime...
That Where Sinners Meet is a genuinely amusing farce is due less to the smug whimsicalities of A. A. Milne's The Dover Road, from which it derives, than to the charm and delicacy with which it was directed by J. Walter Ruben and acted by an expert cast. Clive Brook is almost as funny while manipulating his guests into embarrassing situations as Reginald Owen while uttering sleepy roars of indignation at finding himself in a predicament he cannot understand. Diana Wynyard's cool and enigmatic smile gives an accent of high comedy to sequences which might otherwise...
Editor Joseph Medill Patterson a new comic of his own called "Little Orphan Otto." Editor Patterson, an enthusiastic expert on comics, changed Otto to Annie, started her on her way in the Tribune in August 1925. Annie was a curly-haired hoyden about 12 years old, incredibly wise, philosophical, capable, generous. In due time Cartoonist Gray lifted her from squalor by letting her be adopted by a fabulously rich, middle-aged character named Daddy Warbucks. Daddy had fleets of yachts and airplanes, platoons of liveried footmen around his palatial home, wore a dinner jacket and gleaming diamond shirt stud...
...like a business venture. Born in Atchison, Kans. 62 years ago; Dr. Reisner went to Manhattan from successful pastorates in Kansas City and Denver. Decade ago he envisioned a great 44-story Temple which would include apartments, recreation rooms, offices, shops and an illuminated cross visible for miles. An expert on church advertising and publicity. Dr. Reisner raised $5,000,000 before Depression halted his project. Broadway Temple is at present a roofed-over basement and some clumps of apartments but its pastor still hopes to get RFC money to complete construction...
...Journal-is sold in every important financial city in the land and is even ordered from Europe, China, Brazil. Written largely by bankers, brokers and their employes and printed on the presses of its famed prototype, the Wall Street Journal, the Bawl Street Journal is regarded as the most expert parody in the publishing field. Founder Robert A. Bould began having fun with the sedate Wall Street Journal and its advertisers in 1919 but after he was drowned in Long Island Sound in 1926 publication lapsed for five years. In 1931 the Bawl Street Journal was resurrected by John...