Word: performer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ceremonies. In his tense, high-pitched New-Yorkese he makes every skit seem a bargain. Typical Roxy introduction: "Hello Everybody! Now you're going to hear the greatest little girl. . . ." The "greatest little girl" in Roxy's present gang is Contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink, 69, who will perform twice daily throughout the tour...
...debutante parties, no newspaper stories of how much Banker So-&-So's daughter's party cost, how many orchids and cases of champagne there were. The Christmas holidays, when dancing youths are home from school & college, is the most propitious time for mothers & daughters to perform their parts in Society. Among the more spectacular parties which the women of the nation's affluent conceived, arranged and executed last week were the following: Washington's party-of-the-week, gauged by size and publicity, was not given for a Washingtonian. It was given by Mr. & Mrs. Henry...
...Direction of the War." Finally this sop was replaced by the baton of Marshal. To "Papa" Joffre the supreme military honor came as a sad pseudo-climax, a kind pretense that his power had not been taken away. There was nothing left to do, no further service he could perform for France, except to ride through the streets of U. S. cities in 1917, cheered to the echo, inspiring men to volunteer and fight for Democracy. Again last week the crowds of Paris saluted "Papa" Joffre, but in heart-wrung silence. They stood in a drizzling rain in Rue Oudinot...
...appointed. . . ." Sir Isaac Isaacs. Even before Prime Minister James Henry Scullin of Australia set out for London to attend the Imperial Conference (TiME, Oct. 13, et seq.), he promised Sir Isaac Alfred Isaacs, that the King-Emperor would appoint him Governor General of Australia. That the King-Emperor would perform what had been promised by one subject to another in advance; that Mr. Scullin should have proved strong enough to make His Majesty do it-such was the Empire scandal in London last week. As for Sir Isaac Isaacs, he, apart from being a brilliant lawyer and an able politician...
Where government is secure and civilization high, where engineers can command and skilled workers perform, where mass-production pays, there has Henry Ford succeeded. But even as the tropics and all the vexatious conditions they imply have conquered the genius of many another white man, so last week did they seem to have conquered Henry Ford, symbol of System, Efficiency, Profits. In the rich, deep Amazon Valley, the jungle was reported slowly closing in on a Ford enterprise...