Word: know
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Showfolk know that many an Equity card-holder does not expect to earn his or her living entirely from the stage, takes on radio, film, modeling, nightclub work to eke out stage earnings. The Billboard''?, distressing figures, however, make it easy to understand why the Broadway axiom nowadays is that it is easier to write a play than cast it, many & many an actor having traded prospects of unreliable pay on the stage for modest Hollywood film contracts...
...Tulsa, Okla., haled into court. Tom Bailey told Police Judge A. A. Hatch that he did not know whether or not he was intoxicated when picked up by police. Asked Judge Hatch: "Did everything sort of wave up and down? . . . Did you feel mighty happy and grand, and love every one in the whole world? And did you also feel like you could whip the pants off any mother's son alive...
...Queen Elena (TIME, March 15). According to Signer Mistruzzi, the hale Holy Father pointed to papers on his desk and said: "We have written a long letter which is most important and we are writing another which is equally important. When they are published the world will know a sick man could not have written them. When we write letters like this [pointing] we must feel well." The two letters, on which the Pope with perfect propriety could have commanded expert assistance, were his encyclicals on Communism (No. 29) and on Nazi Germany (No. 30) issued last fortnight (TIME, March...
Oldest, ablest, most interesting of these abstractionists is Artist Albert Eugene Gallatin, Eugene to his friends, though art critics know him better as a patron than a producer of art. Always free from the necessity of earning a living. Eugene Gallatin was definitely one of the lads in the days of pearl-button reefers and horse-headed canes. A member of the swank Union Club for many years, he was founder, remains president of the moribund Motor-Car Touring Society, whose object was to bring a tone of dashing sportsmanship to the horseless carriage...
...SEChairmanship after James McCauley Landis retires next summer, his Bond Club speech reverberated in every banking house in the land. For the 38-year-old onetime Yale law professor proposed nothing less than a complete remaking of the country's investment business. Said he: "Today, as you well know, we have a practical usurpation of the rights of the great body of investors, which can be only described as financial royalism. Our pres ent situation is a carryover from a previous age when there were only a small number of security holders. It should not apply when...