Word: hire
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...original basis; that they cannot compete with chain stores if they have to return $6.75 dresses copied from $10.75 ones, and that the present Guild policy would make it practically impossible to produce and sell low-price dresses, since many manufacturers of these lines cannot afford either to hire designers or to buy original designs...
Here poor Senator Black finds himself confronted with what seem from his descriptions insuperable odds. He faces clever men, with the best lawyers money can get behind them; the Senate can only hire their lawyers at $300 a month, and their clever men don't, for some strange reason, go in for investigations. No wonder resort must sometimes be made to bludgeoning and badgering. Otherwise in a great many cases, the defendants go through an investigation, not only with reputations enhanced, and Senators looking silly, but also they submit to not the slightest inconvenience or unhappiness. If you lack...
...felt the same urge to escape from pretty dancing. Striving for a vital, spontaneous expression, she took to lunging and prancing, projected a sincerity almost severe. In 1926 with $11 to her name she gambled on her first Manhattan recital. Chronically pinched for funds she went on to hire a theatre whenever she could afford one, practiced until her feet were calloused, took pupils to pay for her meagre existence. Recognition came when she was chosen to dance with the Cleveland Orchestra in 1928, again two years later when she impersonated the primitive virgin in Le Sacre du Printemps...
...Dunster House was so disgusted with the appearance of his walls that he set to work himself with wall-paper cleaner. Another in Winthrop House was driven to hire the University for $40 to paint his spotted walls and ceiling. Recently, an inspector, when shown the peeling paint in a bathroom, casually remarked, "A lot do that. It's the steam from the shower." some walls in the Yard have been washed two-thirds of the way up; but whether it was the work of the University or former occupants is unknown. At any rate, there...
...about King of Burlesque is the sudden meteoric pace it strikes when Mr. Baxter starts his comeback. The situation at this point is Baxter down & out, with Alice Faye, lead in his old burlesque show, seeking a way to help him without making herself known. She and Jack Oakie hire a sandwichman to impersonate a millionaire and finance Baxter's Broadway show with her money...