Word: heraldings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...need for shouting or repeating an order, thus is promoted quiet and quickness. The meal pad is but a minor suggestion for improvement, yet it is the erasing of petty annoyances which makes University life more pleasant and more worthwhile. Farley Demotes 1-Cent Stamps Washington to -New York "Herald Tribune" March...
...with his duty: a matinee of Aida at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera. But in the famed aria "Celeste Aida," Martinelli began edging toward the wings, speeding up the aria's sluggish phrases. In the shadow of the wings he collapsed of indigestion. Next morning the New York Herald Tribune printed a column of Martinelli's hints on Italian food...
Thereafter three improved lists were worked up by the New York Times, the Herald Tribune and Publishers' Weekly. Checking the leading booksellers in each of ten cities every week, the Times merely lists favorites of the moment in each part of the country. The Herald Tribune prints a weekly chart, compiled from reports of some 70 bookstores. Appearance and position of a book on this chart is determined by the number of bookstores reporting it as a leading seller; if three bookstores list a title, it appears on the Herald Tribune list. Thus, last fortnight, A. J. Cronin...
These three lists usually agree on the leading titles but often disagree on a book's relative popularity. In January, Publishers' Weekly found Madame Curie the best-selling non-fiction book, with 72 of 104 booksellers giving it first place. The Herald Tribune gave it second place, led by The Importance of Living, which was put fourth by Publishers' Weekly...
...heart of Wilmington, it was not doing so well at Kroch's in Chicago, one of the six biggest bookstores in the U. S., which sells ten times more books each year than do the other stores. But all three stores had equal standing in the Herald Tribune list. Before Red Star Over China had become a favorite in small shops throughout the U. S., it was among the leaders at R. H. Macy's in Manhattan (which alone sells 5% of the nation's books), at the Old Corner in Boston (which sells...