Word: extras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Minister Hore-Belisha installed many a new traffic light, many an extra safety island for pedestrians. Then he issued a clarion call to the public...
...from 40 to 36 per week and grant a wage increase of 10 to 11% to offset the shorter hours. United Textile Workers talked of winning a similar cut from 40 to 30 hours without reduction in pay, but few people believed that NRA would dare impose such an extra burden on the cotton textile industry. Much of the industry itself did not even care if a strike were called, for many millmen felt that an involuntary shut-down would avert overproduction. To Mr. Sloan the threat of a strike was not so much a grievous danger as just...
...accounts of the daily doings of these five sisters will be as tiresomely commonplace as diving girls at Miami, Fascist youth on parade and rodeos are today. But last week there was no boredom in U. S. cinemansions as Pathe flashed on the screen what it proudly advertised as "Extra! World Scoop! Newsreel Sensation of the Year!" To get these first films of the Dionne quintuplets required bullying by Pathe President Courtland Smith, cajoling by Pathe News Editor Claude R. Collins, many a thousand Pathe dollars, a high and mighty appeal in the name of Science and History, and, most...
...Annual Phillips Brooks House Association Reception to new students. The leaders of various undergraduate extra-curricular activities, including the Presidents of the CRIMSON, "Lampoon," "Advocate," Glee Club, Instrumental Clubs and Phillips Brooks House Association, will speak. There will be music and refreshments...
...Bald, ruddy-faced, he wears riding breeches and puttees made especially for directing. On a silver chain he carries his "finder," a glass similar to the lens of the camera. Visitors are welcome on a DeMille set. He enjoys giving tirades for their benefit. During Cleopatra, he noticed an extra wearing a belt that was historically incorrect. Standing in front of his microphone, he bawled to his secretary: "Take a confidential memo to the production department," and proceeded to give that department a thoroughgoing tongue-lashing in public. When he found that his British discovery, Henry Wilcoxon, was losing...