Word: givings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...marry a boy whom her mother dislikes and so escape the fate of her two sisters, fast shriveling into spinsterhood. The wedding takes place in the parlor while mother and two elder daughters are at the movies, and father, impregnated with hard cider, has summoned up enough courage to give his consent. Later, of course, the opposition returns and what was funny becomes funnier...
Experience, said Oscar Wilde, is the name men give to their mistakes. Although there could be no general agreement as to whether or not the Stockmarket crash of Oct. 23 et seq. was a mistake, last week found most economists and many a businessman looking for the "lesson...
Catholic Hour. At the meeting of the U. S. Hierarchy it was announced that the National Broadcasting Co. had offered to give Roman Catholicism one hour on the U. S. ether each & every Sunday. The Hierarchy voted to accept this gift, calling upon the National Council of Catholic Men (Admiral William S. Benson, president) for $75,000 to pay for the programs...
...play in time. After he left Fuller's band he made a hit. Lewis enlarged his stage until it included the whole continent. Although he preceded in popularity such current figures as Paul Whiteman and Meyer Davis he has consistently refused to take his profession solemnly. Asked to give a jazz concert in Carnegie Hall, Manhattan, he replied: ''Boloney! Do you want to make me out a jackass?" His orchestra is a well-schooled unit of lively individuals. He was one of the first jazz-producers to practice leaving the orchestral dais and wandering among the dancers...
...class newspaper. . . . The tone . . . will unquestionably have to be raised. I have found the people of New York City have a lot more intelligence than they are given credit for. . . . What I want to do is to cross Park Avenue with Third Avenue. I don't want to give up Third Avenue, but I want to get Park. I believe the people on both streets have much in common and one thing is a taste for decency. The canons of journalism I learned from Herbert Bayard Swope are the only ones I know...