Word: faces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reveals that "my marriage to Gatti was frankly, on my part at least, a marriage after the European pattern; a sensible arrangement between a man and a woman who liked and respected each other. . . ." Her opinion of her successor, Dancer Rosina Galli: "Like me, she had a rather pretty face but too fat a figure." Alda declares that, when she made ready to divorce Gatti-Casazza, she was told that her contract at the Metropolitan would be allowed quietly to expire. Astute, she obtained from the late Otto Kahn* a promise of a year's contract so that...
President John J. Pelley of the Association of American Railroads summarized the current gloom of railroaders by further plain speaking: "The margin between income and operating expenses has been so thin that the railroads face a real crisis. Because there is no other way to meet this crisis than to make a general increase in rates and fares, the railroads will ask the commission to expedite consideration of the matter. Facing the railroads today is an increase in operating costs totaling $663,303,000 annually since early in 1933. Of that amount, more than one-half results from new taxes...
Riled by Broadway's lukewarm-to-cool appreciation of his three last plays (We, the People, Judgment Day, Between Two Worlds), testy, red-headed Elmer Rice (born Elmer Leopold Reizenstein) three years ago made a public face at all dramatic critics and declared he was "disenchanted" with Broadway for good. So far he has kept his word...
Stories are very current about the hardships and ordeals which face the candidate in a CRIMSON competition. Much of the difficulty for a novice, however, is largely a matter of orientation. I write as one who, having successfully been through a competition, look back upon it now as having furnished me an intensely valuable training. My subsequent experience as an editor of the CRIMSON, interesting and enjoyable in itself, has only served to strengthen this belief
...score of dazzling chorines dance gracefully with their backs always to the audience. They wear sweeping, transparent costumes. The music plays on, the dance becomes more graceful, the rhythm and movement speed up; finally the climax of the dance is reached and suddenly all the girls face the audience. They all are wearing ugly goggle-eyed gas-masks...