Word: offered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...want to know about that !" Actress Gertrude Lawrence adroitly turned publicity from Mrs. Simpson to herself. "She certainly won't get any publicity from me !" caroled Miss Lawrence on the Aquitania. "I may not be able to get to the Coronation if I get a suitable Hollywood offer, but if I miss the Coronation I am sure the King will understand ! Of course I'm joking." The perfect strategy was adopted by Lord and Lady Tennyson who, long after their ship arrived in Manhattan last week, remained "sleeping" in their cabin until there was no longer any reporter...
...discounts lurid stories of wholesale destruction, Professor Knight leans to the theory that the next war, like the last, is likely to be a war of positions, fought with deadlocked mass armies, and consequently more costly in terms of human life than the last. With no concrete solution to offer, he nevertheless suggests that his theoretically powerful audience can prevent war if the desire to do so is genuine. If it does not do so, he announces with ferocious urbanity, "Sirs, here are your blue-prints," in an effort to make terrible alternatives terribly plain...
...these specialties ought perhaps to be considered merely as an example of the variety which 14 student leaders and three alumni have to offer the prospective hostess...
...categories of "Entertainments" and of "Music" anything may be found from a magician to a fencer, a Lyric Tenor to a Concert Planist. Curtis Beach, Ben Bar and others offer a marionette show; Kingsley Perry performs feats of ventriloquism...
Nine Wellesley girls also took advantage of the G.O.P. offer to go to Gotham...