Word: pleasingness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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¶ To act under the flexible tariff law to boost the duty on zippers, thereby pleasing two loyal Democratic Senators, Guffey of Pennsylvania and Lonergan of Connecticut, who have in their constituencies the two big U. S. zipper makers.
The University is basing its claims this week upon two diverting features and a reasonable suspicion that exams sharpen the movie-urge. The featured attraction is "The Garden Murder Case" with Edmund Lowe doing a good job as Philo Vance. It's clever and only slightly predictable. The companion piece...
"Showboat" in any form will always be welcomed by lovers of Jerome Kern music; it has been revived on the stage at least once, and this is the second screen adaptation. This present attempt has an immense advantage over the earlier one, since the music is played and sung as...
When Manager Edward Johnson accepted his post last spring he announced that his experiments would be limited at first to the supplementary spring season. True to his word, the first big production experiment was last week's Bartered Bride in English. Word leaked out from rehearsals that it was...
Having delivered a remarkable crescendo of pleasing facts & figures for nearly a year, U. S. Business had apparently decided to make a thoroughgoing reappraisal of the business outlook. Trade statistics were at Recovery highs. Corporate earnings for the March quarter were impressive, the first 108 companies to report showing a...