Word: footholds
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...many of the other old boxholders were in their regular places, rhapsodizing over the acoustics which seemed better than ever to Chicago's ears after three years in the Insull House. In the Insull House the spirit of old-fashioned friendliness never got a foothold but it enveloped last week's concert so thoroughly that during intermission hopeful talk of more Auditorium opera blended with sentimental reminiscences. It is an open secret that if Chicago can raise sufficient guarantee, Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera will visit the Auditorium next spring. Boston, which was contemplating having the Metropolitan company...
...Rejoice!" exhorted a special edition of Teheran's evening Ettelaat. "The last foothold of foreigners has been removed! Indeed, indeed this is a time for the greatest national rejoicing...
...Communist parties have vital organizations, outside of Russia, only in Germany, France, and Czechoslovakia, and those organizations are to be explained by particular conditions. In Switzerland, Austria, and the democratic countries of Northern Europe with strong Socialist parties, Communism has never gained a significant foothold...
After a number of false starts characterized by high pressure promotion (gliding was once touted as the "salvation" of the U. S. aircraft industry), soaring is just beginning to get a foothold as a U. S. sport. In the third annual meet of the Soaring Society of America Inc. which ended at Elmira, N. Y. last week, flights were made which far surpassed previous U. S. records, but were still far short of Germany and Austria...
...middle of his middle-aged decay Miltiades looks about Florence for some foothold to begin his climb. A drunken confession on the part of T. Handback, the town's wealthy merchant, gives him his chance. Years ago Handback had cheated Miltiades of his small fortune in cotton ; now, when the Colonel learns that the highly respectable Handback keeps a quadroon mistress, Gracie Vaiden, one of the old Vaiden slaves, he uses the information to pry himself, as a clerk at $7.50 a week, into Handback's store. Straight way he makes friends with the Negroes and poor whites, by selling...