Word: hire
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carries off with success. This is best gauged by the way audiences wriggle while watching an episode like the one in which, caught by her admirer running up the steps of a business school where she contemplates taking a course, Alice archly explains that she was going in to hire a secretary for her father. As successful, in a much broader part, is oldtime Actor Fred Stone, making his first important cinema appearance as Alice's likeable, devoted father, puzzled and uneasy as he tries to conceal from himself the assurance which her unhappiness gives him that...
Since then he has married, won a gold watch for selling the most life insurance on the Pacific Coast and sired two daughters. The Charbneau collection has grown until Mr. Charbneau had to hire a business manager to care for it. Not everything in it is the smallest in the world because it includes such miscellany as the eardrum of a whale, a barnacle from the battleship Oregon, a horny oyster, a pair of musical balls from China, an opalized gingko tree. But notable among the costly peeweeana are the following...
...claims. Wall Street would not listen, State Street was almost as inhospitable, and he was nearly at the end of his resources when he managed to get an option on the $250,000 Shannon Mine, in Clifton, Ariz, for $500 cash. He borrowed a last $5,000 to hire a private car and take a party of brokers to inspect the property. Thereafter wealth flowed in, much of it in speculation whose intricacies Author Hagedorn describes in understandable, unsensational terms...
...left Reno. Four of them told me they wanted such divorces. Most of them intend at some time to remarry their divorced husbands." Meanwhile lovesick teachers took heart from two straws in the wind: 1) In London the County Council agreed, after holding out for twelve years, to hire married women as teachers. 2) In Washington Dr. Caroline Ware, onetime NRA Consumers' Adviser, one-time associate professor of history at Vassar, prepared to sue the University of Wyoming for breach of contract. Grounds: Wyoming offered her a job in its summer school, reneged when it found she was married...
...from Italians last week and minted into Maria Theresa dollars was impressed with Maria Theresa's death date, 1780, only date considered any good by Ethiopian chiefs whom Signor Mussolini expects to bribe to desert their Emperor, as well as by Arab sheiks whom II Duce plans to hire from across the Red Sea and fling under Islam's banner against Negro soldiers of the Cross...