Word: performer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dead body decently costs for the undertaking $35 to $1,000; cremation, urn and a niche in a columbarium $50 to $10,000; a single grave lot, seldom more than $50; a modest headstone $50. A few crematists, to popularize their profession, are charging only $50 to perform all disposal functions from death bed to hole-in-the-wall. Cremation in a modern oil furnace takes only 90 minutes...
When Herbert Hoover arrived in Manhattan to perform his duties as director of New York Life Insurance Co., a reporter for the pro-New Deal New York Daily News cornered him in the New York Life Building, asked him if he agreed with Nominee Knox's statement...
EXHIBITION FOOTBALL PRACTICE, Soldiers Field, 3.00 o'clock. Open to Graduates, Undergraduates, Undergraduate Delegates, and their guests. Show Tercentenary Pass. The football team will go through a regular practice which will be described through a loud speaker system. The band will also perform...
...have only two direct comments to make. First, where do you get that drinking stuff? I drink no more than the average politician and a damn sight less than many newshawks, as you call them. You are at liberty to search my official Naval record, and perform such other spy work as the investigation will require in regard to this matter. There is nothing whatever in the record, on and off, to justify the politely sordid comments you make concerning liquor, and myself. For your information, I am suffering from acute neuritis in my legs which followed a severe case...
...regular Class Officers are elected along with the officers of the upper classes, in January. These officers have a number of duties to perform in connection with the Jubilee, smokers and so forth and are considerably more active than the now defunct Sophomore and Junior Class Officers once were...