Word: lumberman
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Distinctions of last week's marriage: the bride, daughter of a Chicago lumberman, came from a well-to-do family; she was a comparative newcomer to Broadway; Manville had been on the wagon more than a year. "This is the real thing," he said. "I mean to settle down." Day after the wedding the silver-haired asbestos heir confided to reporters: "My heart went cloppity, clop-clop all night...
...greatest number of students under the plan are sons of teachers, with engineers and farmers coming second and third. Other occupations represented included printers, service station men, truck drivers, a piano tuner, a carpenter, a lumberman, and one "unknown...
...CHUCKLING FINGERS-Mabel Seeley-Crime Club ($2). A subtly contrived campaign to convince a Great Lakes lumberman that his young second wife has homicidal tendencies culminates in murder of his son. A girl cousin helps police sift the suspects. Equals earlier Seeley stories (Crying Sisters, etc.) in craftmanship, characterization, unflagging interest...
...Columbia University, under the auspices of the League of Composers. The League thus gave a poor start to a good project: development of a "Composers' Theater" to give contemporary English-language opera throughout the U.S. For Paul Bunyan was as bewildering and irritating a treatment of the outsize lumberman as any two Englishmen could have devised...
...Ottawa Agreements of 1932 giving preferential tariff treatment (to Dominion exporters) gave H. R. MacMillan Export Co. a big boost. So naturally Lumberman MacMillan is as loyal to the Empire as to Canada. As the head of Canada's shipbuilding program, he may well have one of the Empire's most important posts...