Word: insists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...agent for Showman Florenz Ziegfeld. He once held the same position for lean Earl Carroll and gained a good deal of his knowledge of Burlesque in the employ of the Brothers Minsky (Abraham, Billy, Herbert & Morton), New York's best known Burlesque impresarios. He was once, his publishers insist, an instructor in English at Purdue University. In the present thick quarto he has assembled a number of photographs of oldtime Burlesque Queens and comedians, larded them with reminiscences of the days when hefty May Howard would not hire any girl who weighed less than 150 lb., when chorus girls...
...glowered and protested in a deep bass voice. She balked along the way, scolded Jack soundly for forgetting the days when he had used her for a charger or for plowing when it would always spoil the butter. At market it was the cow who was smart enough to insist on being sold for the handful of beans which an old witch claimed would return Jack's father's treasures. Fairy beanstalks need no nurturing so it took only a second for one to spring out of the Juilliard stage, for Jack to go shinnying up and find...
...week he said: "We have not had a single accident in the use of the vaccine." Nearly 400,000 French babies and 70,000 Rumanian babes have been given the vaccine. The Hygiene Commission of the League of Nations has declared BCG harmless. But many bacteriologists have continued to insist that the live germs cause rather than prevent tuberculosis. Last week both sides in the controversy looked toward Lübeck for substantiation of their claims...
...wearing an oversized woolen hood which makes him look like a gnome, while Yale's other able backs?Lassiter, Crowley, Heim?do most of the work. So far this season it has not been necessary for authorities to segregate Booth from curious sportswriters, for the Yale coaching staff to insist that Booth is "just another back...
...Dorrance's real home was his estate Woodcrest, at Radnor, Delaware County, which he acquired in 1925. The doctor's widow, Mrs. Ethel Mallinckrodt Dorrance, his brothers Dr. George Morris and Arthur C. (respectively chairman of the board and president of the Campbell company) and his lawyers insist that his only permanent residence from 1910 was at Pomona Farms, Burlington County, N. J., not far from the great soup factory at Camden; that he bought Woodcrest to afford his five children social & educational advantages. Executors of the estate had already begun...