Word: performer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Ringling who began billing these performers in Chicago last week. It was, instead, a young man who is vexed with John Ringling. It was 32-year-old President Sidney Nicholas Strotz (rhymes with "boats") of Chicago Stadium Corp.-out to beat John Ringling at his own game. Last autumn Mr. Ringling refused to book his Sells-Floto circus at the Chicago Stadium for this spring. Instead he took the older, smaller Chicago Coliseum, for a generation the South Wabash Avenue scene of circus in Chicago before the handsome greystone stadium was built on Madison Street. To teach John Ringling...
...adore their fiery Toscanini but Walter, they recall, was always considerate and gentle at rehearsals. Audiences too will note a great difference in the methods of the two men. Conductor Walter's gestures are restrained. He often signifies his wishes by a slight facial expression. He will not perform any of his own compositions, that much is sure. He does not like them...
...understood that President Hoover will be asked to accept the resignation of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, effective Oct. i, twelve years before he reaches the retirement age of 61. Thereafter General Butler will perform on the lecture platform...
Then, as a final witness, Ways & Means Chairman Hawley put on the stand Owen D. Young, confident that that tycoon would merely reiterate the business world's objections to any form of certificate payments at this time. But Mr. Young did not perform as expected. Like his banking friends, he did oppose a big bond issue to pay off the Bonus on the grounds that: 1) such an issue probably could not be sold; 2) savings necessary for business recovery would be absorbed otherwise; 3) "we should end worse off than we began." Unlike his associates, however, Democrat Young favored...
Aside from their value in this respect, examinations perform another function, in the urge they develop for work by holding a threat over the head of the undergraduate, Even grades, however faulty and inexact they may be, provide a certain visible record of achievement, which serves as a kind of compensation for energy expended. It offers an opportunity of a sort for a man to check up on himself, to give direction to his efforts. Of course, too often examinations bring a rigid limiting influence that makes for fact-cramming but that type of test is here, at least, happily...