Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forms. Johuny Perkins, a man with a big tummy and a jazz orchestra, is showing his "Varsities of 1933." Sample line is the one about the brother down on the farm who seems to get more milk from the cowds than anyone else. Say, has that man get pull! Of course, the Metropolitan is becoming more than a theatre. Dancing in the Grand Lounge affords an agreeable interlude for those Jazz crazed youngsters unable to understand the classics of Sevitzky: who, by the way, is said to be Koussevitzky's nephew. Patrous taking in a matince can try their cigarette...
...self-styled finest in the world. Last week the stock of this historic and lucrative enterprise was selling lower than it has sold since the bloody Pittsburgh Riots of 1877. But this was one railroad for which there were no fears that it would pull through, come what may. And when the U. S. Government, in an unprecedented call for testimony on the state of the nation, wanted to learn about the railroads, it turned naturally to Pennsylvania's William Wallace Atterbury...
...falls in love with one of the contestants (Mary Brian) and has to run away from her mother (Ruth Donnelly) when his partner steals the prize money. Disaster, as usual, encourages Cagney. He promotes a treasure hunt on an amusement pier, scuttles off with his fee while the hunters pull the pier apart...
...universities were natural competitors and friendly rivals and that Princeton, geographically and in what one might call cultural background, was in a somewhat different category, not an inferior category, simply a different one. Yet I doubt very much if this is true. Universities, like stars, are influenced by the pull of gravity--in their case the attraction of an overpowering city. Thus Yale, although in Connecticut, tends more and more toward New York, as Princeton does, while Harvard in Massachusetts and Dartmouth in New Hampshire are both in the influence of Boston. This sounds far-fetched, but there is truth...
...Refinance Corp. This agency would lend individual farm owners up to $10,000 each at 3% interest on a second mortgage. With the money the borrowers would buy off other creditors, pay delinquent taxes, meet back interest on first mortgages and otherwise get squared away financially for a long pull...