Word: performances
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been very substantial and the public support generous. The money may have been used to pay other obligations of the local manager. Or, the receipts in a particular instance may have been less than expected. In either case, what legitimate right has anyone to demand that the artist perform without...
...centuries the juridical systems of the civilized world have assumed that the natural handwriting of no two persons is the same. In most commercial transactions a signature is considered as good as a face or a fingerprint. Even the most skilful forgers find it next to impossible to perform in public. Thus successful forgeries of travelers' checks, which must be countersigned under scrutiny, are almost unknown...
...defend the adequacy of rule by gentleman's thumb has been during the recent year of recrimination the duty of Richard Whitney, himself unmistakably a gentleman. That duty he prepared to perform in Washington this week for possibly the last time. For the Senate of the United States, snobbish though it is concerning itself, refuses to recognize gentleman-as-such and is about to entertain a bill which would give the Government more actual rule than any previous bill over not only the New York Stock Exchange and the dozens of other exchanges throughout the land but also over...
Maintaining friendly relations with Hungary was important, but what Engelbert Dollfuss apparently went to Budapest for was to allow Vice Chancellor Emil Fey to perform a few blunt maneuvers for which Chancellor Dollfuss did not care to be directly responsible. The Heimwehr, fist of the Dollfuss regime, had seized virtual control of the Tyrol and was loudly demanding that the little Chancellor live up to his promise to end parliamentary government and attack Marxism in Austria (TIME, Feb. 12). Chancellor Dollfuss departed for Budapest and handed extraordinary powers to Vice Chancellor Fey, the Heimwehr's second in command...
When Trainer Beatty goes back to Chillicothe, Ohio with the circus everybody in town turns out to see him perform except his mother. She thinks his act should be "cuter and less exciting." When Beatty ran away from Chillicothe at 15 to join the circus he found oldtime one- species, one-sex animal acts already too tame to make the public pulsate. People wanted fights. Sure way to start fights was to make the "big cage" a welter of hatred and jealousy by mixing species and sexes. Beatty kept on mixing and adding until by 1930 famed circus Press Agent...