Word: free
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...river front by the houses will be illuminated and there will be an exhibition of fireworks. Following this the undergraduates who have returned to Cambridge will form a torch light parade and march to the statue of John Harvard in the Yard. Following this there will be a free pop-concert dance in Memorial Hall for all undergraduates. Freshmen will be admitted and girls may be entertained at dinner that evening...
...order of popularity, the first three songs. By last month, the "Lucky Strike Sweepstakes" had used 150 tons of application blanks. Biggest week drew 6.500,000 replies. Biggest weekly give-away was 43,000,000 cigarets which set American Tobacco back about $200.000. To facilitate his flood of free smokes, Mr. Hill is using every station of N. B. C.'s combined Red & Blue networks, at a weekly cost of $22,000 for a full hour on Wednesday nights, repeats the show three evenings later for another $18,395 over the entire Columbia chain...
...other reason, "Hollywood Hotel" is notable because it is credited with having wangled $500,000 worth of free cinema talent since its inception, through the persistence of Gossip Parsons. Paying no money to weekly guest stars, Miss Parsons is supposed to bring ungenerous cinemactors into line through their fear of unfavorable publicity in the Hearstpapers. One of Hollywood's most derided and dreaded characters, chunky, many-chinned "Lolly" Parsons gives in her column an astounding daily show of uncritical gush. Great & good friend of William Randolph Hearst, Miss Parsons also professed great affection for Hollywood's grande dame...
...living ex-President and a San Francisco oilman named R. W. Hanna visited Jumbo last fortnight, "purely out of geological curiosity." Much impressed, Mr. Hoover advised Austin to hold on to Jumbo. When Austin offered to pay for this advice, Mr. Hoover told him: "That kind of advice is free." Oilman Hanna, however, bought five claims in the Slumbering Hills around Jumbo...
Twenty years ago two gifted free-verse _ poets who became prominent at about the same time were widely hailed as among the most original spirits in the emerging group of Midwestern writers. Two more dissimilar talents have seldom been found in the same school. Edgar Lee Masters was a gruff, hardbitten, Kansas-born lawyer whose poems were bitter epitaphs on the wasted lives of a small town. Carl Sandburg, cheerful, intuitive, sentimental, had worked as a porter in a barber shop, sceneshifter in a theatre, truck-handler in a brickyard, a dishwasher, harvest hand, Social-Democratic Party organizer, newspaperman...