Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus, two months ago, spoke a proud president - Charles N. Teetor, aged pa riarch of the Teetors of Hagerstown, Ind. The company was Perfect Circle Co., greatest maker of piston rings for gasoline engines. Cause for pride were earnings of $901,831, 48% better than in 1930, .05% ($510) better than in record...
Alfredo Codona, world's No. 1 trapezist since the death of Lillian Leitzel (his wife). Slight Gymnast Codona does swings, turns, somersaults with perfect timing, nonchalantly dives into the net when something goes wrong. Only aerialist in the world able to do a triple somersault from one trapeze to the hands of an assistant, he accomplishes this feat sometimes, at other times tries twice and gives up. For the cinema he has done his triple somersault several times: once in Variety, filmed in Berlin's Winter Garden six years ago; once in Polly of the Circus (when he wore...
...audience was agreeably large, it was in part one of the worst that has over well night spoiled a perfect evening in the theatre. Pathos and tragedy were greeted with titters from parts of the house; the climax of the drama was hailed with gleeful delight from the gallery, where, it must be assumed, Boston's maids were taking their Thursday night off. An Irish brogue on the stage, uttering remarks not unheard of before in the theatre, was, to many in the audience, a matter for laughing, and laugh they...
...peers except two, Mrs. Crane arranges a trip to the scene of the crime which proves that she is right as well as rigid. Like Marie Dressier and Polly Moran, Edna Mae Oliver is an oldtime actress who, with the disappearance of exterior attractions, has had ample time to perfect her comedy technique. Among other members of the jury are Kitty Kelly, who uses the expression "Go milk a duck," and Ken Murray as a real estate salesman...
...travel from Italy to Manhattan to conduct just one concert, reflected Arturo Toscanini, one really should select the Perfect Program. Last week he announced that when he leads the Philharmonic Symphony for the benefit of unemployed musicians April 28, his idea of perfection will be Parsifal, the Prelude and the Good Friday music, followed by Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with its soaring Ode to Joy. Toscanini also cabled his choice of soloists: Soprano Elisabeth Rethberg, Contralto Margaret Matzenauer, Tenor Giovanni Martinelli, Basso Ezio Pinza...