Word: know
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...know who the greatest figure on the contemporary American stage is? Well, it's George M. Cohan. That man is a genius. I've seen him come into a rehearsal with one act of a play written, and he'd write out the other two acts sitting in the darkened orchestra. Sometimes he'd have three or four shows going on at the same time-- let's say, one musical comedy, one straight drama, a comedy, and on top of that, a revue. Remember, all the writing, song-writing, and direction by him, and he might even take an acting...
...success of this organization has been due in the most part to their strict adherence to the policy of selling quality merchandise at unusual values, undergraduates have come to know Bolter's as the institution at Harvard known for quality...
...rang with his success. It was the first time San Franciscans had heard the great tetralogy in years, the third time they had ever heard it. Faces fell when the directors announced that Bodanzky would not return this season, that plump, pleasant Fritz Reiner would succeed him. Know-it-alls began to gossip that Reiner planned to pare down expenses and substitute cheaper instruments for the prescribed tub en quartet, the indispensable bass trumpet. In London last summer Reiner quietly persuaded Philadelphia's Mrs. Curtis Bok to lend him four tuben and a bass trumpet, had them shipped...
...seems that the earthly informants know more than the Principle News-Maker, God, who so far has not 'tipped' us when our earthly days are nearing an end. Needless to say, we are ready for any tip or official news...
Bowing slightly, the clairvoyant ended the brief seance. The next in line was a fluttery shop girl, who seemed to know all the answers, anyway...