Word: printings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dying of appendicitis in a neglectful free clinic, but when he is up against his old comic difficulty of making a complicated and terrifying piece of machinery work. As the proprietor of a "puffle" works whose employes are on strike, Funnyman Savo becomes entangled in a ten-foot blue print, has first powder and then oil squirted into his surprised face, nearly electrocutes himself before the whole contraption collapses. Audiences found all this a long way from Karl Marx, were appropriately grateful...
...possible that manufacturers sometimes print any patent number on an article which they do not believe worth a patent, just to discourage imitators...
...jail, fire chiefs and prosecutors made Driscoll print his name, dictated sentences, compared the printing to the threat notes of 1931-32. Driscoll twitched, squirmed, finally burst into a babble of confession. For four days he gushed about his crimes, drove with fire officials the city's length & breadth, pointing out plants he had fired. When he was talked out, flabbergasted officials tallied up 125 fires, $1,000,000 losses...
...scholar would be more than delighted to be relieved of his teaching duties if some means of supporting him were available. And likewise many a teacher would breathe a great deal easier if he were allowed to go on with his problem of teaching without having to break into print from time to time in order to keep himself established as a scholar. A great deal could be accomplished in the field of Fine Arts if these two activities were successfully separated and not placed, as they now are, in competition...
...Kermit Roosevelt and Mrs. Junius Morgan, poured tea for the reception, while his wife visited her Cincinnati kin. Next night John Lavalle slept soundly in his bed in Manhattan's Harvard Club and the critics' calm little notices of his first show in years were already in print for the Sunday supplements, when at dawn tragedy smashed insanely into John Lavalle's life...