Word: packed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John now occupies his father's old office on the ground floor of the 13-story building in Des Moines's "Loop" He works hard, loves to play. He will bet on anything, any time, for any amount from a pack of cigarets up. His favorite gambling companion is his young brother "Mike." and when they play golf there are bets on nearly every stroke. John has a duffer's swing but manages to score about...
...that his band "has the richest tradition but his performances now seem sterile." There is no doubt as to the tradition, for Whiteman has led the pack for nearly 20 years and nearly every white jazzist of any consequence has at one time or another been a member of his orchestra. As to his present organization it is true that his weekly radio program is very poor but that is due to the fact that the sponsors insist on a lot of so-called comedy, windy advertising and entirely too much vocalizing. When the orchestra is allowed...
...Some readjustments came swiftly-notably in cigarets, books and branded drugs, the retail price of which had been maintained by codes. Schulte Retail Stores promptly resumed the issuance of premium coupons and joined other big chains in cutting leading cigarets from 12½? per pack to 11½?. Macy's, Gimbel's and Bloomingdale's, the three big Manhattan department stores whose legendary price vendettas are a merchandising tradition, were at it again as soon as their doors opened the morning after the Supreme Court's decision. In one day's skirmish cigarets at Macy...
...William Randolph Hearst's bitter fight against the domination of Joseph Pulitzer. He forgets that this very sensationalism he concedes in nine cases out of ten, vitiates Hearst's correctness of attitude. He forgets that Hearst has for fifteen years filled the American people with a pack of lies about Russia and Japan. He forgets that Hearst is for a navy second to none--whatever that may be. He forgets that only last winter Hearst sent his reporters to interview professors on contemporary social problems, and by means of "selective quotation" attacked them on charges of being communistic...
...picture every schoolboy knows, the great Raphael's oval Madonna of the Chair, has hung for centuries on the wall of Florence's Pitti Gallery. The director got a curt notification to take it down and pack it for shipment to Paris. At the same time the director of the Uffizi, having read a similar command from Il Duce, was reluctantly packing Botticelli's masterpiece, The Birth of Venus, Michelangelo's Holy Family, Titian's Flora. At the Bargello it was Verrochio's David. At Milan's Brera it was Raphael...