Word: muchly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Castles' career was a preview of subsequent Hollywood story patterns. They literally became famous overnight. It was a night in March 1911, in Paris. There & then, at the Café de Paris, they launched the dancing era by performing to the extraordinary sounds of Too Much Mustard. Within the next five years, the Castles became by far the most celebrated dancing personages of their era. They popularized the Maxixe, the One-Step, the Castle Walk. They opened a chain of four ballrooms and made about $15,000 a week. When Irene Castle bobbed her hair, a million other...
Said Mr. Thweatt, slightly bitter: "If the government is going to spend so much money for a correctional institution and if the religion of the Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, is a correctional religion, then why should the news of an inmate's accepting the religion be barred from the press and public knowledge...
...pictures range from miniatures to 8-by-12-foot posters which sell for 1,050 marks ($420). For ordinary newspictures his standard price to German publications is 20 to 25 marks, but U. S. rights to a particularly fetching photograph of der schöne Adolf sometimes bring as much as $250. Bildberichterstatter Hoffmann is not the only gainer by his deal with his great & good friend: Adolf Hitler well knows that the least flattering photographs of himself never leave the dark room...
...Lawrence Lee Bazley ("Boom'') Angas is a pink & white Britisher with a reputation for making daring predictions which have sometimes come true. He is supposed to have foretold the collapse of rubber in 1926, the rise of gold shares in 1931. He won his nickname with a much-publicized booklet, The Coming American Boom, which heralded his arrival in the U. S. in 1934. Since then he has conducted his business as an investment counselor in Manhattan, writing a market letter for 300 clients and charging as much as $2,500 a year for market advice. One afternoon...
...With so much to recommend it, Christ in Concrete has one unfortunate fault-its occasional passages of impressionistic, Joycean rhetoric. But these passages are not structural. Without them, the book would be as solid as one of Author di Donato's brick walls...