Word: key
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radio advertising and gives British radioauditors not what they want but "what they ought to have."* Sir John arrived at the New School just in time to tell the meeting that the U.S. system of competition among broadcasters "is preventing you from getting full value out of your key men." Recommending Britain's rigidly uncommercial programs, he added: "I submit that there is a risk of educational ballyhoo as well as of commercial ballyhoo. It is not so vulgar; it is less aggressive, different in form, quite different in motive; but is it not more or less the same...
...field-manager. Last week it was hinted that Prosecutor Clark had some sort of understanding with the Taylor woman; that Crawford had threatened him with exposure on the eve of this week's election. Immediately she became the object of a search by police-the inevitable "key witness...
Shipmates (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Robert Montgomery made a name for himself in minor-part impersonations of the jeunesse doree. He had an ability possessed by few other young cinemactors to give the impression, without wearing a heavy sweater or a key on his watch-chain, of having gone to college. Nevertheless, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer decided that his first star role should be that of a sailor, apparently an orphan, in an unlikely story which serves no purpose beyond the unnecessary one of advertising the U. S. Navy. In the improbable and not very amusing incidents which lead to Montgomery...
...health dogged the Mayors and their families. Trenton's Donnelly, sick at sea, went straight to Paris to rest. Atlanta's Key was taken to the American Hospital in Paris with stomach trouble. Mrs. Gray, wife of the 78-year-old Mayor of Pasco, Wash, had to be carried to her Rouen hotel room...
...Author. John Peale Bishop, Southerner-born (in Charles Town, W. Va.), of the Princeton generation of Author Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald and Critic Edmund Wilson, seemed to have fallen by the wayside. After college and the War he and Wilson went to Manhattan to play the literary game, ran Vanity Fair together, published a partnered book, The Undertaker's Garland. Then Wilson went on to higher things, Bishop to France and Italy. He lives near Paris in a Louis XIII house. Many Thousands Gone (containing the Scribner $5,000-prize story of that title) is his second book...