Word: key
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Cherry Sisters came to town, 30 years ago, loud was the rejoicing in poolrooms. The Cherry Sisters were blowsy, humorless young actresses who sang sentimental ballads completely off key, in dead earnestness. They appeared behind a serviceable net that covered the stage, and it was entirely au fait for the audience to hurl apples, tomatoes, potatoes, cabbages, other ingredients of a typical New England boiled dinner, throughout the Cherry Sisters appearance. In every town that the Cherry Sisters played, it was an invariable custom for the editor of the local paper to review their act with a column...
Characterizing Stone & Webster as "one of the greatest power organizations in the U. S." Senator La Follette exclaimed: "The Senate must have an opportunity to decide whether we are to continue the policy of filling key positions with representatives of the power trust." The Senate acceded to Senator La Toilette's demand, rescinded its approval of Mr. Stone's appointment, agreed to reconsider the matter later...
...good U. S. President can get far away from his White House duties. After six days of mediocre fishing in the Gulf Stream off Long Key, Fla., President Hoover cut short his winter vacation and journeyed back to Washington. No Sunday fisherman, he did not want to waste an idle day aboard the houseboat Saunterer. Likewise he was impatient to get his hands back upon the London Naval Conference, where developments were not altogether to his liking. French demands had boosted auxiliary tonnage figures to such levels that the President could have read such press headlines as: HOPE FOR NAVY...
...plain-dressing, unrouged intellectual wife of Associate Justice Harlan Fiske Stone of the U. S. Supreme Court. Her 66-lb. sailfish, landed after a two-hour battle from dusk to moonrise eight miles out in the Atlantic, set the season's record, won her one of the Long Key fishing club's little gold buttons for a championship.* Washington society, whom the Stones entertain often and well, waited for her own account of the feat. If anyone should impolitely doubt her story, she can substantiate it by the best evidence-a cinema of her catch taken...
Work in Progress has been appearing serially in transition for the last two years. Author Joyce, no smoother of the path for his public, gave the transition editors only the first and third sections, one instalment of the second, supplied no key to the whole. The prevailing explanation: to out-smart literary pirates...