Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tall, 42-year-old Danish Count, wearing a blue serge suit, carrying a brief case, strode in. Next entered a slender blonde young woman, formerly an American citizen, twice-married, once-divorced. The flashily dressed streetwalker bounced out of court. Shaggy-browed Sir Patrick Hastings, noted British barrister, rose, be to outline the case, that of Countess Barbara Haugwitz-Reventlow, née Bar Hutton, heiress to the Woolworth 5?-&-10? fortune, against her husband, Count Court Haugwitz-Reventlow, who, she claimed, had threatened her bodily harm...
Twelve years ago U. S. concertgoers and gallery gawpers were already used to the dissonances of modernist music and the distortions of modernist painting. But U. S. dance audiences were familiar only with romantic ballet and the rose-garlanded capers of "interpretive dancers." Shocked by this backwardness of the U. S. dance, a group of younger U. S. dancers decided that something ought to be done to bring it up to date. To these reformer-minded dancers, sex appeal, pretty costumes, toe technique were not enough. They wanted to express and depict serious things, to comment on present-day problems...
Averaging 218 miles an hour Pilot Hughes flew the Lindbergh route as it never had been flown before. When Manhattan went to bed he was veering off Newfoundland. When it rose for breakfast he was over Ireland. Before lunch the radio reported him in at Le Bourget Field, 3,641 miles away in Paris, 16 hours, 35 minutes after his takeoff, more than twice as fast as Lindbergh's time, 33 hours, 30 minutes...
...From 1921 to 1929 total industrial net profits rose sharply, but the price index dropped from...
...United's stockholders were likely to vote was immediately indicated by the stock market. Same day the letter went out, United Corp. common was the most active security on the Big Board, rose from $3.12 to $3.50 on a turnover of 44,000 shares, while the preferred rose from $30.75 to $32.25 on a turnover of 5,600 shares...