Word: regular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Chandler partisans believed and shuddered, Barkley partisans disbelieved and smirked. Non-Chandler doctors pooh-poohed the poison story. Waiter Berry insisted he had filled the pitcher from the hotel's regular water supply, that no one came near him in the elevator or corridors as he took the pitcher to the Governor's room. Louisville police ridiculed it all. An "ice water guard and food inspector" was appointed to "protect" Senator Barkley. At a big Barkley rally last Week in Louisville, a monster pitcher of ice water was placed on the speaker's table. Interrupting...
...cinemagnates were shown emphatically that radio is through with giving them anything for the asking. Stations KFI and KECA (NBC's Los Angeles affiliates) refused to donate time for broadcasting the world premiere of Marie Antoinette from Hollywood's Carthay Circle, demanded that M-G-M pay regular commercial rates for the air time. NBC took the program as a network sustaining show, but KFI and KECA won their point. They were the only stations paid to carry it. Said KFI-KECA General Manager Harrison Holliway: "A can of celluloid is the same as a can of beans...
...Wimbledon, could have told him better. Television in England has its own difficulties to overcome; but it is now providing a daily service of excellent quality to many thousands of viewers. It is a travesty of the facts to describe it as a dismal failure; and as a regular, if transatlantic, reader of TIME, I am jealous for its reputation for accuracy. STEPHEN TALLENTS British Broadcasting Corp. London...
...residence in a snug cavern 119 feet underground where for them day and night on the surface had no meaning. There they lived a 28-hour cycle, sleeping nine hours each 28-hour "day." There were only six of their long days in a calendar week. They had a regular routine of eating, sleeping, reading, writing, walking...
Finances. About 20 summer theatres, among them notably those at Westport, Skowhegan, Ogunquit, Dennis, Schenectady and Stockbridge turn in a regular profit. Most of the rest survive on subsidies from rich patrons, tuition fees from amateurs (who pay up to $600 apiece), or both. Summer theatres employed about 500 actors a week in 1934, 800 last year, expect to employ about 1,500 this season. Top salary for stars is about $750 a week, but most willingly take much less. Less celebrated Equity members average $40 a week. Authors whose plays are performed in summer theatres get minute fees, because...