Word: mainstays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Victor Herbert. Music in the Air is principally important for providing Miss Swanson, 36, with her current comeback vehicle. She seems very well preserved and sings through her teeth in a sprightly way. Aside from her triangular mouth and a song called "I've Told Every Little Star," the mainstay of the action is June Lang, a blonde who has spent several years on the Fox lot, having her teeth straightened and taking lessons in singing, acting, and diction. Miss Lang has emerged as completely unremarkable a young woman as the cinema has produced in many a year...
...typewriter. Specialists, of course, he must have. Small, crisp, sharp-nosed First Secretary Erie R. Dickover is the specialist on oil, the Embassy aide of the hour. For nine years stocky, dimple-cheeked Councilor of Embassy Edwin Neville, fluent in Japanese, cagey and impossible to ruffle, has been the mainstay of successive
...coaches are hoping just at the present moment, and the little prayer that they're adding to "Now I lay me down to sleep" is for the quick recovery of Captain Gundlach who was injured in a scrimmage Thursday. For the last two years Gundlach has been a mainstay of the Crimson line and although his position does not allow much room for flashy play, nevertheless he has caught the public fancy more than is usual for a lineman...
...Gardner, was elected captain of the Freshman baseball team yesterday afternoon. Owen, who has been playing a beautiful game at second base so far this season, is a former Mercersburg Academy player. Fielding well all year and being one of the leading batters, he has been a mainstay of the team. St. John's Game Today HARVARD ST. JOHN'S Macintosh, l.f. 3b., Sheeran Burbank, r.f. c.f., Siepietowski Owen, 2b. r.f., Mannix Bilodeau, 1b. l.f., Walsh Regan, 3b. 2b., Cummings McTernen, c.f. 1b., Tansey Carr, s.s. s.s., Palombo Blackwood, c. c., Barry Avon, p. p., Nicketakis...
...proved to be the mainstay of the financial side of the Government. The banks, insurance companies, railroads and municipal and state governments that have been helped may repay over a period of years. Excellent collateral has been required, so that it is generally felt the loans will pay out close to 95 per cent on the dollar on an average...