Word: far
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...far, the business brought to it by the 200,000 portables in use has been scarcely a drop in the battery industry's 3,000,000-set bucket, but battery men, like set makers, have high and springy hopes...
...music, dollar-eyed, dewlapped Harris De Haven Connick, had pictured a rosy future on an $800,000 budget. But last week, with their Fair already open more than two months and Director Connick out on his ear, irate San Franciscans were clamoring for more and better music. So far the most important music absorbed by San Francisco's 2,900,301 Fairgoers was played by Edwin Franko Goldman's band. After booping inconspicuously in odd spots about the Fair grounds, the band had finally landed in the Court of Honor. There, at $8,000 a week, they were...
...Sargent, prefacing the 23rd edition of his famed handbook of private schools with a 160-page sound-off,† found the state of education more than normally alarming. During the year private schools, for example, were sharply criticized-luxurious Lawrenceville's Headmaster Allan V. Heely went so far as to call them an expensive and perhaps useless luxury. Independent old Mr. Sargent seconded the motion, thereby braved brickbats from his patrons...
Motoring across Europe in 1929, when Europe seemed far from war, two young American women, Mount Holyoke's Mildred Burgess and Syracuse University's Marguerite M. Lux, decided it would be nice to open a college for U. S. girls in Switzerland. There girls could combine study with music, art, mountain climbing, skiing and meeting charming young Europeans. The Misses Burgess and Lux got Eleanor Roosevelt, Newton D. Baker and other bigwigs to sponsor their college, opened it in Geneva in the fall of 1930 with 25 students at $1,500 a head...
...Broadway blithe May brings only the kiss of death. This year, however, May tripped into Manhattan carrying in her arms a lusty infant World's Fair from Flushing, Long Island, a babe supposed to bring luck to Broadway. All it has brought so far is one of the worst theatrical slumps in years, perhaps because the curious are visiting the Fair instead of the theatre...