Word: keys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House would not say. But at his first postvacation Press conference, the President intimated under his breath that a desirable domestic price level would be that of 1924-25, much to the surprise of observers who understood that 1926, a bit more prosperous, had been picked as the key year...
...stage roles, he has given three performances each of which possessed a shade more than the mechanical competence which Hollywood demands of subsidiary performers. Son of Frank Jerome Tone, president of Carborundum Co., Franchot Tone went to Hill School and Cornell, where he got a Phi Beta Kappa key and ran the Dramatic Club. He played in stock for a year before Guthrie McClintic put him in the Age of Innocence, with Katharine Cornell. Last winter, Hollywood gossipmongers observed him escorting Joan Crawford, whom he will play opposite in his next picture, Dancing Lady...
...those early days . . . the city was a place of culture, the country a land of 'rubes.' . . . Today this may all be reversed. The country may be the land of culture. . . . But we will not get this change in country life without good schools . . . the key which will unlock the country for modern living...
...oratory as in years gone by, but July 4 will bring gladness to the hearts of at least 1,000 deserving Democrats. Last week, working in a swelter of job-hungry politicians, Postmaster James Aloysius Farley, patronage dispenser to the democracy, had prepared a list of i.ooo recipients of key positions in the Public Works and Home-owners Loan Administrations. The President, expected back at the White House this week, where he would begin to pay for the loyalty of a Congress which had denied him nothing, was to assign the jobs formally on Independence...
...cutups began to wane, Republican police were suddenly ordered out to take down all Sacred Heart banners "to avert further rioting." Only one defender of the faith was discovered. As a shouting crowd swept along the Gran Via. a man suddenly arose from a cafe table crying "Viva Cristo Key! Long Live Christ the King!'' They made for him, but he fought them off with powerful squirts from a pale blue soda siphon. They wrecked the restaurant instead...