Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pioneer Texas land baron who left an estate now valued at $10,000,000. She is president of one Corpus Christi bank, largest stockholder of another. She is known as "The Savior of the Alamo" because she once put up $65,000 (later repaid by the State) to keep commercial structures away from Texas' shrine. By the time she married Newspaperman Hal Sevier in 1906, Clara Driscoll had written two novels (The Girl of La Gloria, In the Shadow of the Alamo) and a musical comedy (Mexicana)* which the Brothers Shubert produced on Broadway. Democratic National Committeewoman Clara Driscoll...
...Paris they are reading a novel about an undersexed brother who tries to keep his sisters from enjoying their love affairs. They are hustling to see Jean Cocteau's play involving a mother in love with her son, a son in love with the father's mistress, and a maiden aunt in love with the father. Spring, a week late, hit Paris with an intoxicating sequence of superb days. Out in the country, wheat, barley and oats looked good; the 1,500,000 vineyard owners had their spring shoots in the ground; fishermen were beginning to pull...
...there were 28 shows on Broadway. June 1 there were 16. Such a slump is normal enough at season's end, but this year Broadway thought that the New York World's Fair would keep her dolled up in her midwinter ermines. Instead, with New Yorkers scurrying to Flushing and out-of-towners in no rush to get to New York, the Fair has Broadway limping about in rags. Last month within a few days more casts petitioned Actors' Equity Association to be allowed to take cuts than at any other time in Equity's history...
Cellophane leggings for women to keep their stockings dry in wet weather...
...mask for chickens to keep them from fighting...