Word: fixe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stood up in her box, clapped for five curtain calls. Next day she had Miss Hayes in to the White House for luncheon and at 3 p. m. Actress Hayes hurried back to her hotel suite in high excitement, canceled half a dozen appointments, summoned a beautician to fix her bobbed hair. That evening by special invitation she went back to the White House for 8 o'clock dinner and the glittering Diplomatic Reception which followed. Clearly Helen Hayes had made a profound impression upon the Presidential family. And critics who watched her Washington tryout forecast another...
There were no codes, relief, no N. R. A., And a man was free to fix his pay, Free to loaf, labor or snore, Oh, come ye back, ye days of yore, When the eagle perched on the mountain...
...automobile accidents trying earnestly to bring the figures down, and here are the sons of the No. 1 Citizen earning a joint reputation as the reckless irresponsibles of the open road who don't give a damn what they do because their daddy will fix it up. Everybody has to grow up in time but the Roosevelt boys don't seem to realize that the children's hour is over." Last week the following events made news: ¶ In Chicago, the National Safety Council reported that U. S. motor accidents in the first ten months...
...Feld-Crawford Act, passed by the New York Legislature last spring, is closely modeled on a California act passed in 1931. It permits the manufacturer of a trademarked article to fix the resale price of his product. If any retailer contracts not to sell the article below the specified price, this price is binding on all other retailers, even if they have not signed such a contract. Doubleday (publishing house) contracted with Doubleday (booksellers) to sell Vogue's Book of Etiquette at not less than $3, the Garden Notebook at not less than $1.50, and Novelist Ruby Ayres...
Last year onetime Representative Hogan was indicted on a charge of extorting $725 from two would-be plumbers after promising to fix them up with city licenses. Last April Federal authorities turned him up for another piece of business. As confidential clerk to the Collector of the Port of New York, they charged, he had taken $100 apiece from three Italians who had entered the U. S. illegally, needed some political fixing to get their first citizenship papers...