Word: seatful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Duke had escaped by special train from Shantung Province when the Japanese marched in fortnight ago, blasting the ducal seat near the Sacred Mount Taishan, where some 10,000 descendants of the Sage are buried. In 1936 the Confucian Society of Japan got the boy Duke to come to Tokyo and dedicate a shrine to the Sage. Ever since there have been rumors that Japan was persuading the Duke to let her set him up as puppet ruler of China...
...already well under way. Since, in the Hollywood credo, no production has any excuse for being undertaken unless it can be bigger & better than the last, Jack Warner and his associates had planned accordingly. Santa Anita cost $1,000,000. Inglewood will cost $2,000,000. Santa Anita can seat 20,000. Inglewood will seat 25,000. Santa Anita snuggles at the foot of the picturesque Sierra Madre Mountains. There Inglewood was momentarily stumped. Inglewood is close to the sea but not close enough to afford its paying guests a view of the twinkling Pacific. But Hollywood brains soon found...
Seldom in any country does a party receiving less than 10% of the votes cast in an election have its leader proclaimed Prime Minister. Exactly that happened last week in Rumania. Week after election (TIME, Jan. 3), King Carol, hurrying down to Bucharest from his country seat near Sinaia, summoned a ELungarian-born poet-politician and instructed him to form a ministry...
Last week 3,300 Manhattanites, including hundreds whom bribery or culture-maddened wives could not have dragged to the ordinary Sunday-night doings, elbowed each other before Radio City's Center Theatre, paid as high as $5.50 a seat to see a hash of items mostly warmed over from past modernist recitals. Three hundred and fifty standees broke the theatre's record, established on the closing night of The Great Waltz. As the formal conclusion of Manhattan's five-week Olympic Dance International, what was old stuff to Greenwich Village longhairs became a tiptop Broadway box-office...
...From a seat beside U. G. I. Chairman John Edward Zimmerman and U. G. I. Vice President Conrad N. Lauer (see cut), Mayor Wilson rose to repeat his 50? gas campaign pledge. Looking directly at Chairman Zimmerman, he remarked sweetly: "You are efficient, and I'd prefer to see you continue rather than have another company come in and offer us more favorable terms, say 30? or 40? gas." Ten days later he filed suit against U. G. I. and the Municipal Gas Commission demanding the "return...