Word: goings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Inevitably Sāo Paulo's bonanza prosperity caused other Brazilian states to go in heavily for coffee planting, spurred by the lure of high prices created by Sāo Paulo's artificial restraint of trade. As these new plantations have come into production it has proved steadily harder to keep the price of coffee up. Pressure by the potent planters on the Brazilian Government forced the adoption of most dubious expedients by the state. These have included the buying and storing in State warehouses of Brazil's coffee surplus for a number of years, until...
...been forced to occasional vaudeville towns, to doing Modiste over the radio, taking a turn at legitimate dramatics. The brilliant career of a captivating person might thus have tapered away into nothing had it not been for last week's revival. Now, due to its success, Modiste may go on tour again...
Fifth Game. President Hoover, after watching a pitcher's battle apparently won by Pat Malone (Chicago), was getting up to go when Philadelphia's "Mule" Haas came up to bat in the ninth inning and knocked a straight pitch over the right field fence, bringing in Bishop and tying the score. By slaps and gesticulations, since words could not be heard, Cubs tried to make Malone feel better, but his nerve was gone. He took a long breath, got rid of Mickey Cochrane on a grounder; burly Simmons doubled. Joe McCarthy signalled to pass Foxx. While the crowd...
...first Manhattan program she gave five new dances and the audience cheered her louder than at the so-called debut a year ago (TIME, Nov. 19). Immediately thereafter she entrained for Buffalo, thence to Rochester. This year she will give some 60 recitals, go as far West as the Coast...
Some 13 years ago a much-bundled lady lay in her deck-chair on an eastbound Atlantic liner and moaned the fate that had let her go to the U. S. and fail in a few miserably managed recitals. The lady, although it could not have been guessed by her thin, unshaped legs, was a dancer. The name she went by was La Argentina* and in Madrid she had long been a favorite. But the U. S.-bah! She closed her eyes and pretended to forget...