Word: presentable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hurt San Francisco's show so much as lack of showmanship. To cure that defect the Exposition last week took a promising new managing director to succeed the dethroned Harris Connick (TIME, May 15). Smart, baldish New Director Dr. Charles Henry Strub, onetime ball player and chain dentist, present-day Santa Anita race-track operator, is all for brisker ballyhoo and livelier amusements. He may yet make Treasure Island a bigger attraction. Most notable of its present sights...
...London, at the Trooping of the Colour, General Gamelin watched from a balcony beside Queen Mary. Also present at the Trooping, although not in uniform, was Germany's General Walter von Reichenau, who was in London to attend the meetings of the International Olympic Committee...
...happy. Students pay an over-all fee of $300 to $1,200 a year, according to their means (a few pay nothing), are expected to share in the work, whatever they pay. For its new buildings, Black Mountain bought a site at Lake Eden, few miles from its present quarters. It hopes to get gifts to start its project and have at least one building to move into by the fall...
...effect that their record, in all respects, is good; that their attitude has been satisfactory and is changing for the better; that their viewpoint towards the future is sensible and sound; that they, in short, have done the best they could to get full value out of the present school year...
Practically every field of honest and, possibly, questionable, endeavor is included among the remaining vocations. Manufacturing, education, insurance and merchandising draw over five from the class. The usual amount of dry wit is present in one man's statement that he wants to be a beach-comber, and author's that he intends to become a "raconteur"-Dwight Fiske...