Word: keepers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...City by Annam's late Emperor Thanh-Thai. Was there any rule of etiquet. demanded this ingenious monarch, which barred him from setting up a market in the Palace courtyard, with eunuchs to sell meat & vegetables, the Empress & concubines as buyers and His Majesty as the fishmonger? Abashed, the Keeper of the Book of Rites replied that His Majesty might have a market. Next day and every day thereafter the courtyard hummed with haggling, especially furious around His Majesty's fish booth...
...compensations of being a stage-door keeper is the tips derived from gallant gentlemen seeking entrance to the actresses' dressing rooms. Last week the indigent Budapest Opera capitalized such backstage gallantry. It offered for sale to Budapest bloods little silver keys to the ballet dancers' green room and the singers' smoking room. Price $150, good for one year...
...listeners, who posed first in a group, then separately in Artist Stallknecht's studio. At the oars of the dory are two fishermen, deacons in the church. Prominently featured are Grocer L. Sidney Atwood, president of the church association, Insurance Man Augustus Bearse, vice president, and Restaurant Keeper Mrs. Emma Howes, clerk. Others: the Chatham electrician, auto dealer, carpenter, landscape gardener and their wives & children, some of them descendants of founders of Old Congregational Church...
Back Street (Universal). Fannie Hurst's tender and moving biography of a kept woman is here reproduced in a sincere, detailed picture. Irene Dunne is the big-hearted daughter of a German notion-store keeper in Cincinnati. She falls in love with John Boles, a pedigreed young banker, who by a series of misunderstandings, makes her his mistress instead of his wife. Though Boles is selfish and niggardly, she rejects an old sweetheart who offers her position and wealth. The young banker becomes a big banker, supported by his mistress' advice. Going to Europe on a Reparations commission, he takes...
...KEEPER OF THE KEYS ? Earl Derr Diggers?Bobbs-Merrill...