Word: selective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When calling a consultant select one who knows more than...
Wandering stages this weekend will find a lively evening in Broadway's several dance halls. Of which we select...
...explaining that only an actual production company, presenting Broadway successes new to Boston as well as original plays of merit at prices well within the reach of all interested in the legitimate theatre can fill this need. "This company must present legitimate dramas of the highest type; it must select plays and players with great care and keen constantly changing the members of the casts; and finally, it must please the public by giving them what they want; a so-called "stock company" will not fulfill this...
...going to select a picture that will show us the Speaker the way he looked in his prime. I remember him at that Peoria Conference some years ago and my, my, what a splendid figure of a man! I am encouraged in my lowly artistic conceptions, for a prominent artist told me only the other day that that is what art, real art, does-it shows a man in his prime. The lucky contestant will receive $2.500 and the others will have had the exnerience...
...pleasure to notice with what diabolical perspicacity the writers of book blurbs select the author's most striking language for the public to sample. Here is the work of a critic who can select from the mass of sham which gluts the maw of the reading public the few tiny gems of true art. Listen...