Word: quarter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Berlin, Alice Faye and Ethel-Merman vocalize their way through a familiar but amusing version of boy-meets-boy-loses-boy-gets in the current screening of "Alexander's Ragtime Band" at the University. The story itself, showing the incredible ups and downs of show business, covers the last quarter of a century in an interesting if superficial picture of the times...
...women workers. . ." On the labor market when Mr. Biggers surveyed it last November were 39,978,000 males, 14,496,000 females between 15 and 74. Of these, approximately 7,845,016 who registered were "available for employment." (Latest conservative estimate of unemployed: 10,500,000.) Two and three-quarter million women who in depression clung to jobs rather than husbands were a surprise that made the problem so much worse...
...celebration" of the second anniversary of Generalissimo Francisco Franco's dictatorship, Spanish Rightist aviators last week dropped tens of thousands of quarter-pound loaves of bread over the hungry Leftist cities of Madrid and Barcelona. Believing they had pulled off a stunt calculated to persuade Leftists that a Rightist victory would mean a full stomach, Rightist propagandists announced that Madrid's share of the bread, safely floated to the ground in makeshift parachutes, had been 178,000 loaves. Later, ending a week's pause, Rightist batteries west of Madrid resumed their futile shelling of the city...
Once on a Pullman sleeper an officious Dorter routed him out of his drawing-room 3erth in the middle of the night. "Dere's a lady out dere says she give me a quarter f you toll me how you pronounce your lame." Gabrilowitsch told him. The pro : Gabbril-oh'-vich...
...lived up to his reputation. In perhaps the most exciting of the 300 college football games played last Saturday, a magnificently coordinated Army team kept him bottled up for almost three periods. At half time, Army was leading 18-to-6. But in the final minutes of the third quarter, Luckman began to bomb the Army's defense. In the last quarter, with Columbia trailing 13-to-18, Luckman threw three passes and three times succeeded in speeding the ball toward a touchdown in a 96-yd. drive. Although Fullback Gerry Seidel carried the ball over the goal line...