Word: million
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your issue of May 11 you printed a picture of Mrs. Newberry, Mrs. Preston and Mrs. Roosevelt, together with a brief article which was not only news but helpful to the Needlework Guild of America comprising approximately one million women...
...trusty vassal Canada" (as the Moscow Izvestia put it) are about to start dumping-"and how!" (a phrase popularized abroad by U. S. talkies). The European impulse was to call Mr. McKelvie a hypocrite when he said that under Federal Farm Board aegis the 275 million surplus bushels of U. S. wheat "will be sold, but they will be merchandised in orderly fashion; they will not be thrown overboard for anything they will bring, to demoralize domestic and foreign markets...
...Million (Tobis). If any early cinemas are revived in 1960, they are likely to be those primitive comedies whose directors, dazzled by the speed and flexibility of the new medium, made their characters participate in comic pursuits, prolonged and exaggerated through a series of wild mishaps. The cinema has since mastered other and more subtle methods of achieving funny effects and a Hollywood director might have thought twice before resorting to the simple old pursuit device as Director Rene Clair (Sous Les Toits de Paris) does in Le Million. As in comic opera, with swift pictorial action and amusing musical...
...opera by showing the property man making a snowstorm out of paper, music lovers applauding before a duet is finished. Francophiles, whose excuses for cheering the French cinema were somewhat limited before Sons Les Toits de Paris, will be pleased to discover that Director Clair has made Le Million easily intelligible to U. S. cinemaddicts-by revealing developments in the coat-chase through the conversation of two sleepy Englishmen who inspect the excitement from the roof of the hero's studio. Notable in a cast of brilliant French character actors is Rene Lefebvre...
...song whose sale has neared the four-million mark would be an enviable memorial for any composer but in New Haven last week still further tribute was paid the late Ethelbert Nevin, composer of "The Rosary," one of the most famed and most abused of all U. S. songs. A copper plaque, the gift of the Connecticut State Federation of Music Clubs, was set between the tall windows of the ivy-covered house where Nevin died 30 years ago. Mrs. Nevin, the composer's widow, went up from Manhattan to do the unveiling while neighbors recalled anecdotes about...