Word: first
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Great Victor Herbert is distinguished for providing Allan Jones the first film part worthy of his silken tenor. It also brings to the screen for the first time Mary Martin, glamorous Texas strip teaser, whose song, My Heart Belongs to Daddy, was the hit of the 1938 Broadway musical season. A little skinny on the stage, Miss Martin's figure is enhanced by the tendency of the camera to fill out curves...
...first eleven months of 1939, U. S. publishers brought out 8,196 new titles. There were 1,060 new novels, 511 biographies and autobiographies, 984 titles in the field of belles-lettres which includes poetry, drama and criticism, 1,361 titles which come under the general head of politics, history, economics and social sciences. In this enormous mass of books -good, bad, ponderous, specialized, dull, exciting, original, confused, confusing-a jew stand head & shoulders above rivals in their respective fields. Some emerge from the year's crop by their wide popular appeal, a few because of their unquestionable literary...
...Their first regular game is with Belmont Hill on Tuesday night. Belmont has many regular back, and the game promises to be a close...
...three forward lines have worked well together, and have been shooting and passing effectively. George Hackett, John Paine, and Councie Morgan make up so called first line, while equally good service can be expected from the lines of Fred Bacon, Bill Apthorp, and Bill Hackett, and of George Gebelein, Bill Ray, and Chester Jenks...
...added work in the social sciences, in sociology, economics, and political theory. took the form of informal colloquies addressed by preachers known to have had first-hand experience in these fields in their parish work...