Word: maine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When a Londoner uses the word "Prom" he refers not to a college dance but to an extraordinarily popular series of concerts given every autumn at London's ugly old Queen's Hall. Unlike Covent Garden concerts, the Promenade series are not fashionable. Main reasons for the concerts' popularity are their cheapness, varied programs, unconventional atmosphere, the personality of their conductor. Highest admission charge is about $1.75, cheapest 50?. The 50?-tickets admit bearers to a large space devoid of any seats. There, an odd assortment of Londoners amble around the floor, smoke, swap opinions and amateur...
...owners promptly leased the right of way to Michigan Southern R.R. Since 1914 New York Central has leased the property, which now forms part of the Central's main-line track between Toledo and Jackson (Mich.). And while the Central has ceased to pay dividends, Erie & Kalamazoo has paid a dividend on its common stock as regularly as most railroads now apply for RFC loans...
...Besides main plot, many a great drama has at least one subplot. Main plot in the dramatic reform of the U. S. market place reached its climax when the New York Stock Exchange reorganized. Last week the subplot reached its climax as the nation's second biggest securities market, the New York Curb Exchange, finally produced a thoroughgoing plan of reorganization. This followed a behind-the-scenes fencing series much like that which occurred behind the Big Board...
...revenged himself with interest when he returned to riches and honors at Queen Anne's death. They hatched the great South Sea Bubble swindle, but Marlborough forced the Government to build fabulously costly Blenheim Palace as his reward for being a "good Englishman." For the modern reader, main interest in Author Churchill's six volumes is likely to centre less on Marlborough's dubious innocence than on the spirited picture of diplomatic skulduggery which distinguished the whole cast of characters...
...hammer home this thought, two impassioned English oldsters-Powys is 66, Ford 65-give their best to prove to common readers that the classics are good reading. Both are concerned with the literary rather than the biographical aspect of their subjects, both agree on their main admirations: Homer, Shakespeare, the Bible, the Greek tragedies, Dostoyevsky; neither has much use for the scientific and political spirit of contemporary letters...