Word: handly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fisher Body plant at Detroit out on strike. Next day he called out 2,900 more in four other G. M. plants, next day 2,300 in four more. His technique, new and shrewdly conceived, was not unlike amputating one finger at a time to cripple a hand. It was painful to the corporation; it was stimulating, exciting for the workers: something new in the newspapers every day, and no man knew when his marching orders might come. Moreover, a few men at a time were exerting pressure as menacing as a general walkout would be, while those still...
...successful European promotion trip for Wuthering Heights, highlighted by a Paris premiere at which French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor were his guests. Under his new contract Jimmy will spend more time in Hollywood, continue his cinema education by taking a hand in the production of the new Goldwyn picture, Raffles, starring David Niven...
...Boomps-a-Daisy went into the big time when Band Leader Jack Hylton opened a ten-week revue at London's Palladium, had an Edwardian-costumed chorus perform the dance, invited the audience to join in in the aisles. Boomps-a-Daisy goes as follows: face partner, tap hands; clap hands to knees; "with great delicacy and discretion," boomp hip against bustle; place hand on heart, bow; waltz for four bars; repeat the whole thing. Boomps-a-Daisy was launched in the U. S. on a television program in Manhattan last fortnight, is to be tried out at Manhattan...
This unique journalistic backward step was news last week because it was taken by the 175-year-old Hartford Courant, which has the longest continuous publishing history of any paper in the U. S. The Courant has not missed an issue since Thomas Green pulled its first from a hand press on October 29, 1764. It printed the Declaration of Independence as news, numbered George Washington among the subscribers who read the lively, eye-witness war correspondence of Israel Putnam. Republican since the Connecticut branch of the party was founded in its editorial rooms by Publisher Joseph R. Hawley...
...Courant is still published within a stone's throw of Founder Green's hand press. It is now ruled in its obituary policy and otherwise by sober, stamp-collecting Publisher Henry H. Conland, who joined the paper as an office boy 39 years ago, and Editor Maurice S. Sherman, a good-natured fisherman whose editorial style is compared with that of the Courant's most famed leader writer, Mark Twain's crony, Charles Dudley Warner. Together they have helped restore respectability to the "Old Lady of State Street," who lost it briefly after the World...