Word: purveyor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most successful purveyor of mass entertainment is Twentieth Century-Fox, whose net profit last year was $8,617,114. This year a program of 58 features will find the Dionne girls hygienically spotted in a musical to be called Five of a Kind. Other notable projects: Drums Along the Mohawk, the Ritz Brothers as The Three Musketeers, three Shirley Temple, four Jane Withers films, specially designed pictures for Eddie Cantor and Sonja Henie...
...containing evidence for further charges against Wauters. At this new example of fascism turned smearism, the mild Premier for once showed spunk. "Did you, sir, steal these?" he shrilled. "And where?" Then he treated the Chamber to a denunciation of Rexist tactics, dramatically returned the unopened envelope to its purveyor...
...from $10,000 to $8,000. Further slashing reduced Ontario Government salaries all along the line, cuts in some cases as much as 50% being carried into the Ontario Liquor Board and Ontario Hydro-Electric Power Commission. This last claims to be "the capitalist world's largest public purveyor of power," serving nearly half a million Ontario families at reputedly "the world's lowest electric rates"-about 9? per kilowatt hour in Ottawa...
...these activities the Council wishes to make clear that its sole aim is to help economics students with material that concerns them as students, not to present any partisan political views whatsoever. The Council hopes to be a market place for opinions but no purveyor of opinions itself...
...youth, he relates, he "always liked bright, jolly girls, full of the dickens." But he kept his eye on the main chance, and after a disillusioning turn in investment banking, followed by a bad case of tuberculosis, he set himself up in Wellesley Hills, Mass. as a purveyor of business figures under the name Babson's Statistical Organization, Inc. He and his wife were the sole stockholders, still...