Word: partner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vagaries of a typical P. G. Wodehouse story. Not so lissome a heroine as light-footed Ginger Rogers (temporarily otherwise engaged), inexperienced Actress Fontaine (Olivia de Havilland's sister) goes gamely but somewhat lumberingly through the curvets and caracoles required of her. Far more facile as an Astaire partner is, of all people, rumpish Radio Dunce Gracie Allen, who with her harassed husband, George Burns, makes up the Astaire party...
Boxers, Lamar will say, are the kind of athletes who need competition, and not the kind that comes from week after week of sparring with the same partners. There must be a little more incentive to win. Boxing for the joy of boxing may exist, but the majority of fist-flingers want to see more than a bruised sparring partner (whom they've fought a dozen times before) after they get through a few three-minute sessions...
...pound midget can find a partner his size under Lamar's new plan, and the man of 200 pounds likewise will be able to find a behemoth of his dimensions...
Last week the remaining two Babes in the Woods, Allan Price Kirby, son of one of the founders of F. W. Woolworth Co., and Robert Young, onetime partner of Frank Kolbe in Young, Kolbe & Co., were reticent about Mr. Kolbe's departure. All they would say was that part of Mr. Kolbe's share in the syndicate had been bought by Mrs. Young, who is the sister of Painter Georgia O'Keeffe, the remainder by a lawyer "for the personal holding com-pany of an undisclosed individual." While Wall Street ears tingled to talk that this unknown...
That sort of thing was Horatio Alger justice, for Mr. Schulte has worked hard all his life. At 15 he started as a clerk in a Sixth Avenue drygoods store. Two years later he went to work as a cigar clerk for his brother-in-law. A partner at 25, he owned the firm and its five stores two years later in 1900. There were soon more stores and diligent Mr. Schulte, working hard in a dingy Manhattan office, paid less & less attention to tobacco, more & more to real estate. In 1926, which is the year Mr. Schulte...