Word: lot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into one of the busiest weeks in its history. It presented no new operas but for old ones there was a brushed-up orchestra, a reorganized chorus, a new ballet troupe, an unusual amount of rehearsing. During the first week no less than eleven singers made debuts. Of the lot none was bad and most were better than average. Consensus was that the Opera had made an intelligent, hopeful beginning under new Manager Edward Johnson...
...took the family troubles to a sympathetic newspaperwoman, whose job it was to put the bee of budget-keeping in her readers' bonnets, she got good advice free, paid by not taking it. Then unsympathetic reality began to crack down. Dallas flunked out of high school, wasted a lot of time trying to win a $10,000-prize competition, settled unwillingly to a job as chauffeur to his best girl's father. Sythia's grandmother sacrificed part of her funeral money to divert the "career" into a more appropriate job in a beauty parlor. Darthula...
...nominate Governor Eugene Talmadge of Georgia. . . . He has the courage to say what a lot of good Democrats think...
...week, as judges, 75 picture editors, magazine publishers, advertising art directors and Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia ambled about Manhattan's Rockefeller Center, squinted critically at some 300 pictures of the Press Photographers' Association exhibit. When they had seen everything, they decided that the best spot newspicture in the lot was that of the sorrowing Samanoff, awarded first prize to Cameraman Cranston...
...into action and he tells Madge Evans, blinded wife and bereaved mother, "Kiss me and tell me to go back into the tunnel." But everybody knows that the fault is in the script, and Mr. Dix, with years of variegated experience behind him, is easily the best of the lot...