Word: rooting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cinematic as the defeated tart and Frances Maddux does well although her main talent for singing naughty ballads is quite dragged in by the heels. Jane Bancroft (one of the local debbies) does rather nicely as Ella, the serving girl--a democratizing experience, no doubt. John Root's stage so is a magnificent variation on the duplex apartment idea...
...three blue-ribbon orchestras. But symphony music will also be played eloquently this winter in Chicago, Cincinnati, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Ore., Rochester, N. Y., Detroit. St. Louis' symphony attendance has increased more than 50% in the last two seasons. New orchestras have taken firm root in Washington, D. C., Kansas City, Duluth. More concerts will be given in Pittsburgh, Indianapolis, Baltimore, Richmond, Syracuse, Louisville, Ky., Asheville, N. C., Lincoln, Neb., Houston, Dallas, Denver, Milwaukee, Seattle, in many another U. S. city. Women have their own orchestras in Chicago, Manhattan, Long Beach, Calif. Chicago businessmen and Detroit...
Among the numerous publications which have taken root in Harvard soil there is one which has perhaps been unequaled in its presentation as well as the unusual nature of its contents. This is a fearless publication. Admitting the difficulty of treating the subject, the last issue of Arnold Arboretum's "Bulletin of Popular Information" throws caution to the winds and breathlessly sails into an abstruse problem which has never in the history of writing been treated so sensitively...
...household words after this week. Catcher Gabby Hartnett, their heaviest hitter is a huge, red-faced Irishman who has been with the Cubs since 1922. Lon Warneke a lanky, hay-pitching, coon-hunting 26-year-old from Arkansas, is the right-handed ace of the pitching staff (Warneke, French, Root, Lee), which rotated with rhythmic brilliance through their winning streak. At the start of the season, Manager Grimm was the Cubs' regular first baseman. Nineteen-year-old Phil Cayarretta, one year out of a North Side Chicago high school, played the position so well that Manager Grimm...
Upon receiving his LLB in 1923, he entered the New York law firm of Root, Clark, Buckner and Howland, where he was so successful that he soon departed to form his own firm of Parker and Garrison...