Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Acclaimed by both Percy Hammond and Brooks Atkinson as one of the most interesting plays that have graced the News York stage in this year when there has been a flood of meritorious productions, "Dinner at Eight," which opened at the Music Box last month, has not been esteemed too highly. The work of another of those fruitful Kaufman-Ferber collaborations, the play has set before the audience the intensely interesting elements that make up a dinner party at the home of Mrs. Oliver Jordan. "Just a small party. Lord and Lady Ferncliffe will be here, two dear friends...
Brewer Frank Schwab, onetime Mayor of Buffalo, was dismayed at his colleagues' zeal to flood the market. Said he: "Beer won't last five years if the saloon is allowed to come back...
...deep-rooted as ever is dread of the saloon. Crusader Fred Clark holds firmly to his organization's purpose of "taking profit out of liquor distribution." Such an able Wet as Representative-elect Wadsworth of New York fears that Repeal, the ultimate goal, might be retarded by a reckless flood of beer...
Residents of D entry of Adams House, in Randolph Hall, were disturbed last night by a flood of water from a patented fire extinguishing system at about 11 o'clock. The shower soon subsided and a fire escape served as an emergency stairway...
...more than 1,000,000 signatures submitted, awarded prizes. First prize of $1,000 went to Thomas Leonard of Lincoln, Neb. Edward of Wales signed once, for a Michigan girl, added "Hope you win the prize" (she did not), then besought Waterman's London branch to stem the flood of letters. Most signatures of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (post-convention), Charles Spence Chaplin, Anton Joseph Cermak were disqualified as rubber-stamps. Revealed as refusers-to-sign were: George V, Paul von Hindenburg, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, John Davison Rockfeller Sr., Al Capone. Most reluctant (one each) were: Henry Ford, Greta...