Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...addition to all this there is a dog act, one Jack Osterman whose patter is pretty dreadful, and Miss Sylvia Clark who may possibly have feelings so we just won't say anything. The good act is an acrobatic one in which one Pete Michon succeeds in throwing himself about the stage in a manner never to be equalled again, unless he comes around for a return engagement...
...featuring Christmas music, follows: Christmas Music 1. Good News from Heaven Bach 2. Two Carols Warlock 3. A Carowle for Christmas Day Byrd Two Madrigals and Two Rounds 1. The Nightingale From Pamelia 1609 2. Oaken Leaves From Pamelia 1609 3. Weep oh mine eyes Weelkes 4. Come Sirrah Jack Ho Wilbye Hecula's Lament Bolst Three Choruses from Secular Cantatas Bach Conductor G. Wallace Woodworth...
Most deeply concerned about catching Omaha's hatchet-man was Omaha's new police-chief, John J. ("Gentleman Jack") Pszanowski. Chief Pszanowski, a Polish miner's son who began walking a beat in Omaha 20 years ago and reached his present eminence last July, is something new in police chiefs. He does not believe in violence. He is supposed to have used his night stick only twice in his career. Says he: "The day of the bully is done. The day of the treat-'em-rough policeman is over. We must so conduct ourselves...
...outlined by Governor Brewster-with such joyous phrases as "in the twinkling of an eye" and "like the house that Jack built"-the job reserve is to consist of some three billion dollars worth of public construction projects on paper. Getting the projects off paper, translating them at judicious moments into sweat-producing, belly-filling, back-covering jobs for labor, and into cash-registering orders for business will depend upon the extent to which federal, state and municipal legislative bodies and officers can be persuaded and helped to "cooperate" (Hoover's favorite word). Also, patience and discretion will...
...budgeted at $1,100,000; to Richard Barthelmess, a raise from $5,500 to $8,500 a week; to Fannie Brice, $7,500 a week for three weeks to appear in Publix theatres; to King Alfonso (Spain), an unnamed sum for talking into Fox Movietone sound-camera; to one Jack Felstein, called Jack Gordon, not more than three years for grabbing pocketbooks from matrons at cinematinees in Manhattan...