Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hardworking, began writing institutional ads for the churches of Atlantic City, turning out swift-moving, unpretentious copy about people who play hooky from church, who set their children a bad example, who mistakenly consider churchgoing a mid-Victorian custom, who consider their salvation less important than the fact that it is too hot or too cold to go out on Sunday morning. Adman Peifer graduated to "Go-To-Church Editor'' when, in an ad attacking the pursuit of pleasure, he solicited names of anyone in need of "the sheltering arm of the church." Atlantic City merchants gladly signed...
...infallible blind landing system has proceeded now for years with constant view-halloos but never a commercial installation. Whether the Army's new device at last fills the bill was, in the absence of real evidence last week, doubted by most airfolk. Most promising indication was the fact that an integral part of the system is the Sperry gyropilot. This extraordinary device is already capable of so many feats that it is not difficult for some professionals to believe that it can effect blind landings...
...Treasury, whose financial arrangements with him got into the courts three years ago, when it became known that they had counted-unsuccessfully so far-on selling The Emperor Jones in Hollywood. To Composer Gruenberg and others like him, last week's Lake Placid award pointed up the fact that the radio, not only a channel but a frequent source for prize-money, may increasingly replace rich individuals as a patron of music...
...looking contraption-a sort of double-decked platform in the air, held together by invisible piano wires. The whole thing was hung by cables from enormous pulleys on the stage ceiling. The lower deck, besides having springs and pads like a huge mattress, was covered with a carpet. In fact, this super-gadget was a "magic carpet," reminiscent of the one Douglas Fairbanks rode 13 years ago in the Thief of Bagdad. Eddie Cantor had used this one for three weeks in his picture-in-process, AH Baba Goes to Town. For a magic carpet it weighed a good deal...
Dead End (Samuel Goldwyn). Most Manhattan streets come to a dead end at the East River. This, and the fact that often on Manhattan's East Side only a course of masonry separates the triplex apartments of the rich from the cold-water flats of the poor, were about all Playwright Sidney Kingsley (Men in White) needed to write one of the most successful plays of the 1935 Broadway season. A large measure of its success was due to Norman Bel Geddes' superrealistic set and to the children Messrs. Geddes & Kingsley cast as the gang which contributed most...