Word: pipering
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...sent back money to keep the play and the Group going. Again, in the summer of 1937. when the Group existed in name only-its leading actors and its one remaining director were all in Hollywood-Odets came through with the script of Golden Boy, and like a Pied Piper led everybody back to Broadway...
...coming despite these arguments, the companies unanimously asked for a flat rate because a sliding scale would greatly increase their work and actuarial complications. Though Mr. Pink warned that "any fixed rate ... is bound to be unfair over a long period of years," Governor Lehman last April signed the Piper-O'Brien Bill establishing a flat rate of 5% (4.8% to those who pay in advance). And since New Yorkers hold nearly a fifth of the $109,572,000,000 U. S. policies in force and since the companies obviously cannot charge different interest rates in different States...
...Sold 3,000,000 bushels of wheat to Mexico under the export subsidy plan, Mexico will pay for the wheat with proceeds of its export tax on the silver its mines sell to the U.S. The U.S. Government thus pays the Mexican piper both ways-taking one loss by selling the wheat at less than the market price, taking another by buying the silver at an artificially pegged price...
Cesar Ritz was a Swiss peasant who at 17 became a waiter in a Paris restaurant. Fifteen years later he was managing the most luxurious hotels in Europe. By the 90s when the Hotel Ritz opened in Paris, he had made himself a Pied Piper to royalty and the international upper crust, and had given the world the adjective "ritzy." But for most readers the big news in his 70-year-old widow's biography will be that he really existed...
...Main event of the day, as usual, was the piping contest. Contestants were judged on points, 100 being regarded as a perfect score. Twenty-five of the hundred points were allowed for time, 25 for tone, 50 for execution (the technique of trills and capers with which every good piper decks out the tune he is playing). If a piper missed a melodic trick, or if he allowed his reed to "choke" (stop vibrating for lack of air), he was docked a point or two by the judges. Last week's winners: stocky James Bremner of Kearny, Pipe-Major...