Word: raiser
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...youth and love, his young daughter. For his motives, see Freud. The play has a certain intensity of gloom, but much of its force is lost in clumsy ambiguity. However, it permits Miss Bette Davis to do an effective bit of acting as the daughter. For a curtain-raiser there is Eugene O'Neill's Before Breakfast. This is a one-act play with a single character-an embittered wife up to her ears in woe. It is one of Mr. O'Neill's earlier works and has all of his early melancholy weight. The cast...
...onions were hotly discussed. Congressman Fish (New York) pleaded with the Committee to give special attention to a high duty on celery grown under glass, as many of his constituents, celery growers, were existing only on Red Cross bounty. . . . Congressman Gifford (Massachusetts) describing himself as a Cape Cod turnip raiser, wanted the rates on this commodity hoisted from 12 to 50¢ to shut out Canadian importations. Georgia's Crisp begged for better treatment of peanuts in the next tariff act. Maine's Hersey grew damp-eyed as he told of the plight of the potato producers in his State...
President Henry Fairfield Osborn of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History* wrote out a curtain raiser for his trustees. It was his 1929 budget, prepared for their annual meeting last week...
...Dick did win. James Cash Penney, chain store owner and raiser of Guernsey, paid $7 a pound for Dick-$8,050 all told. The highest previous price was $3.60 a pound, two years ago. Mr. Penney intended to ship Dick to Manhattan, exhibit him to the urbanites, then eat him for Christmas dinner. But gourmanderie was not Mr. Penney's prime reason for buying Dick, nor advertising. He has stores in small towns throughout the country and he wished to encourage boy & girl stockbreeders, his customers...
Quite by chance librettist and musician were brought together to do a curtain-raiser. An astute and sporting manager, D'Oyly Carte, saw the possibilities, launched the inimitable comic operas which have been wide favorites these 50 years?H. M. S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzancc, Patience, lolanthe, The Mikado, Ruddigore. But it was also D'Oyly Carte who charged the famous £140 carpet to The Gondoliers, thereby traditionally starting the passionate if intermittent quarrel between the gifted collaborators. Gilbert objected to the extravagance, and flew into a rage because Sullivan refused to join in the objection...