Word: seasonally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proceeding to winter quarters at Sarasota, Fla. The show was off the road before midseason because Mr. North, having lost money lately, was unable to induce his union roustabouts to take a 25? pay cut. Last week Mr. North reached into a $250,000 "nut" acquired early in the season, paid off the roustabouts. He also paid off the thin man, the fat woman, the clowns, the midgets, most of whom agreed with Star Performer Frank ("Bring 'Em Back Alive") Buck that they should take the cut, go ahead with the show, and set up a more cooperative union...
...backer. Mentioned for it were so many other actresses, obscure or celebrated, that Variety cracked that, if all of them attended the premiere, the picture would pay expenses in one performance. Playwright Clare Booth wrote a comedy (Kiss the Boys Goodbye) on the subject, scheduled for Manhattan production next season...
...Cove. It was the first time since 1934 that either college had an undefeated crew. Harvard was the favorite because: 1) it had defeated every major crew in the East this spring (Navy, Pennsylvania, Rutgers, Syracuse, Princeton, Cornell, Columbia and M.I.T.); 2) its boating had remained unchanged all season; 3) it had as stroke James Fletcher ("Spike") Chace, who had beaten Yale twice before, had paced only one losing race in two years and is generally recognized as one of the greatest strokes in the history of U. S. rowing. Yale had only two seasoned oarsmen in its boat...
...habit of devouring their young when frightened. Last week in Astoria, Ore., William and Emil Urell, operators of a mink farm, appeared before a board of officers from a nearby Coast Guard station, claimed the U. S. Coast Guard owed them $6,750 for damages. Right after the whelping season, they testified, a Coast Guard amphibian plane whizzed over their farm within 150 feet of the ground. The mother minks, terror-stricken by the drumming racket, dashed wildly about the cages, seized their 270 mink kittens, gobbled them up. Attorneys for Messrs. Urell cited two previous court decisions as basis...
...well in New York City and San Francisco, in Chicago and Dallas, Tex. And although its total sale fell slightly short of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' The Yearling, it was head and shoulders above rivals in its own field, and the only work of non-fiction in the past season to sell on the scale of best-selling novels...