Word: previewed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nearly the entire civic administration of Mt. Vernon, representatives of every church and the Bible Society, showed up for the preview performance. After watching the cast bridle through its paces, the women in baggy underwear and aprons, the men in shorts and collars, the audience voted the nudist lark "depressingly modest...
Clad in the conventional costume of an English gentleman-striped trousers, black jacket, bowler-Conservative Lord Derby went to a Lone jn hotel to see a preview of 1935 styles for men to be exhibited at the British Industries Fair. Said he, after inspecting the show: "I am already in the fashion. I achieved this position by wearing exactly the same kind of clothes I wore...
...would damage the morals of the nation. Last November a print of Extase had been seized by customs inspectors under the indecency provisions of the Tariff Act when an attempt was made to import it in Manhattan. But when the time came last week to preview the picture in Washington, Secretary Morgenthau found himself so busy that he sent his wife to help render a decision...
...debt-ridden Chicago last week, Comptroller R. B. Upham reported that the city's five-year rout into the red had been halted, that a small counteroffensive back into the black had been launched. Issuing a preview of his 1934 report, he announced that, through tax collections, he had brought the city's bonded indebtedness down $11,000,000 from its $136,357,000 total of April 1933. Some $8,000,000 worth of bonds had been retired before their maturity dates. Chicagoans were grateful for thus saving more than $2,000,000 in interest charges...
...City Hall. Bumbling Mayor O'Brien was out. Said Annie: 'I ain't going to wait. I'm just as Irish as he is." She had tea with caviar in a swank restaurant, dined with Showman Samuel L. ("Roxy'') Rothafel, saw a preview of Lady For A Day. Taken to a farewell supper, she waltzed, drank, acted as if her Day were to last forever. At midnight Apple Annie vanished from the ball. The pressagents gave her $25 and the clothes she wore, dropped her at her dingy flat...