Word: musts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the 1925 Legislature provided that the city must approve any unification plan devised by the Transit Commission, the Commission's Special Counsel Samuel Untermyer in 1930 offered to pay $489,000.000 for both companies. This was the highest price ever suggested, but B. M. T.'s square-jawed Chairman Gerhard Melvin Dahl held out for more...
...this was revolutionary theatre when, in the 18705, Wagner's Bayreuth Festspielhaus was built to mount it properly. It is no longer revolutionary, for the Metropolitan, like the Festspielhaus, is hidebound by the Ring tradition that not a hair of Wotan's beard must be altered, not a comma of Wagner's copious stage directions deleted...
...Manhattan, on Washington's birthday, newshawks discovered Elizabeth Washington, onetime vaudeville actress and direct descendant of his brother John Augustine, cheerfully playing a fiddle in Manhattan's WPA Federal Theater. Said she: "There must be thousands of Washington descendants. The family was enormous.* . . . Just say I swing a mean crinoline...
...greatly simplified terms, the fictitious cases of Jenny and Suzie are the problems which the Administration must face in connection with the recent Union agitation about the Pension Plan. On one side is Jenny whose job is temporary, whose wages must fill an immediate need, and whose old age security lies with her husband. On the other is Suzie whose job is permanent, whose wages must fill a future need as well as an immediate one, and whose old age security depends on no one but herself...
...happened. A pretty girl, a college girl, undoubtedly from Wellesley, took the vacant seat next to him. It happened just as Vag had always seen in the movies. He knew exactly what to do, for the scene had been rehearsed in his mind a thousand times before. Her baggage must be torn from her small hands and lifted to the rack above. Helplessly, Vag watched the red-cap go through the motions. Still, there was hope. The girl had turned her blue eyes to the pages of a book, and then Vag saw his chance. She was cramming desperately...