Word: opener
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...play a piano in a Lyons Corner House restaurant,* became Britain's most popular cinema organist. Organist Foort this week was officially on vacation, actually en route to Manhattan to pick up a new organ for an assault on the big money. He has resigned from BBC, will open in November a music-hall tour which guarantees him $13,000 for a year, almost three times his annual BBC earnings...
...Daniel Hurson Cut Stone Co. of Washington, D. C., put a sign on the door of the safe: "To whom it may concern: there is no money in this safe, only some papers of no value to any one. Please do not break open." Last week a thief broke into Hurson's store, grinned at the sign, cracked the safe, found it as empty as Mother Hubbard's cupboard...
...years ago. After a concert was spectacularly rained out of a large tent last summer, energetic President Smith started a drive to raise $100,000 for permanent quarters. Glad to get $80,000, the Festival committee commissioned Finnish Architect Eliel Saarinen to design the Shed-a fan-shaped, open-sided building covering an acre and a half, its roof supported by three interior pillars and a colonnade. The Shed's acoustics are so excellent that an orchestral pianissimo can be heard by an overflow audience outside the colonnade. Last week, during the first of this season...
Chicago Daily News Cartoonist Vaughn Richard Shoemaker last week suggested that Father Divine might have occasion to borrow a lawn mower for his new 500-acre estate across the Hudson River from Franklin Roosevelt's "Krum Elbow" (see cut). The possibility of such a call soon became open to question. In New York...
...usual, this was to take the form of open compliance, actual recalcitrance...