Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...army uniform, Mrs. Spencer got down to the business of explaining why their two daughters, Mary Belle Jr., 16, and Victoria, 14, had never been to school before last autumn. That the Spencer girls have indeed been lifelong truants is a fact which their mother has long made familiar to most Chicago newsreaders, but only recently to the school department of suburban Bloom Township. When Attorney Spencer had Fandancer Sally Rand arrested for indecent exposure in 1934, newshawks showed her a picture of her own shapely daughters in a bathing beauty contest (see cut) elicited this response: "My girls must...
Pretty & popular young sopranos are rare enough, but pretty & popular young contraltos almost unheard of. Industrious Gladys Swarthout worked hard, made her name familiar to radio listeners in broadcasts for General Electric, General Motors, Atwater Kent, Palmolive Soap, Firestone Tires, Fleischmann's Yeast...
Suckers- Many white men personally familiar with events in Ethiopia since then say that the Emperor for years played Italian and other foreign concessionaires for suckers until Benito Mussolini gradually evolved his theory that the White Race is being aggressively menaced and must recover the dynamic attitude of Victorian England or ultimately suffer eclipse. Japan, during Depression, secured virtually the whole of Ethiopia's import business in cotton piece goods, while Italians were supplying Haile Selassie with a powerful radio station at cut rates. As soon as it was in working order, His Majesty turned around and fired...
...revealed that the Lindberghs had sailed on the U. S. Lines' small American Importer, a cargo liner of 7,590 tons. Not even the ship's officers had known who their passengers were to be until Colonel Lindbergh marched into the captain's cabin with his familiar, "I am Charles Lindbergh." All arrangements had been made by a U. S. Lines vice president, who had thoughtfully put aboard a six-foot Christmas tree, ornaments, three Christmas stockings. The Lindberghs had paid the standard rate of $280 for two and a half one-way fares. It was reported...
Banned from Radio after Jan. 1 are hundreds of songs controlled by Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc. which lately parted company with the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers (TIME, Dec. 9). Missed most by radio addicts will be such long-familiar theme songs as Smiles (Ipana Tooth Paste), Memory Lane (Firestone Tires), When Hearts Are Young (Studebaker Automobile), Rhapsody in Blue (Woodbury Soap). California Here I Come (Bayer Aspirin...