Word: rising
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...supposed that such loans were intended by Congress to have some relation to agricultural pursuits or at least to activities of a type usually carried on in rural communities. . . . Subsidizing the manufacture of silk hosiery does not appear to come within such contemplated fields . .. [besides] giving rise to increased competition with cotton, the chief agricultural product of the South." With no high hopes, FSA planned to present "new evidence" to persuade Mr. Elliott that its silk-stocking project is legal...
...Most sensational debut of the Metropolitan's third week was not Masini's, but that of a young (25), good-looking New York contralto, Rise (rhymes with Pisa) Stevens. Contralto Stevens, who studied at Manhattan's Juilliard Graduate School, had spent three years singing at Prague's New German Theatre and at the Vienna Staatsoper...
Last week, in the title role of Ambroise Thomas' archaic Mignon, pretty, dark-haired Rise Stevens showed herself to be much more than a run-of-the-mill operatic debutante, sang with mature taste and acted her part with full-blown operatic temperament. For her, even the morosest critic prophesied an expansive future...
Before an audience of 1,000 socialites in Manhattan's Town Hall, Professor John Erskine gave a lecture on "The Rise of Jazz and Swing." Swingmaster Benny Goodman & band came along to show how it was done, had some of the audience bouncing in their seats, the rest embarrassed. Swing-Scholar Erskine summed up with a slogan: "Bach plus swing equals vitality...
...Last year Connett sold 44 copies of a book on salmon fishing for $250 each. Even Derrydale's tenth anniversary catalogue is published in a limited edition: 950 copies at $3.50 a copy. A student claims to have worked her way through Vassar speculating on the rise in Derrydale publications...