Word: performances
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pelley walked out to become special Washington pleader for the Association of American Railroads. Last week dry, quiet, abstemious President Palmer, whose father is still the Maine Central station agent at East Sumner, Me., dragged himself from a gloomy directors meeting in Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal to perform the saddest duty that ever devolves upon a railroad man. He announced that the New Haven could not meet its obligations, was filing a reorganization petition under the Bankruptcy Act. Mr. Palmer's announcement was hardly a surprise. Indeed, the stockmarket was so resigned to the huge collapse last...
Citizen Hoover has a job to perform. He must aid his party in formulating a constructive platform and selecting a progressive candidate. Divorced from the candidacy, his wisdom and his experience will be of telling influence with his fellow-citizens. Candidate Hoover would necessarily disregard these duties and would become the G. O. P's Benedict Arnold...
...kingdom of Hart & Porter, the King (Melville Cooper) yearns not for feats of statecraft but to be able to perform tricks of magic. The Queen (Mary Boland) yearns for the handsome biceps of Charles Rausmiller, the cinema's Mowgli. The Prince and Princess yearn respectively for a night-club dancer and an itinerant playwright. On the eve of the King's jubilee, the pressure of boredom sends them all off to satisfy their various yearnings...
...instance, is a silly anachronism. It is thus not necessary to support the constitutions in a partisan sense the way one supports a political candidate, or his country when it is a belligerent. Unlike public officers we teachers in private institutions, at least, have no official duties to perform under the constitutions. I can hardly conceive of any act of a teacher that would violate this oath except perhaps the advocacy of overthrowing the government by force, and that would be unlawful in the absence of the statute...
...regard their friend ship as platonic is fortified by his interest in a dance pupil, Anita Louise. He does not know that his debut at the Opera-Comique has only been made possible because Tobin bought out the house later finds this is so, and fails in his perform ance. He is back in the U. S. when Miss Louise starts him to fame again by bringing the director of the Metropolitan Opera Company to the 5? & 10? store where he is plugging songs. By the time he finds his way to Miss Louise's arms it appears certain...