Word: senting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...given up to the penny-pinching students some 250,000 pennies, half of the city's supply. By that time Troy was beginning to mutter, and retail commerce was all but crippled. Merchants adjusted their odd-cent prices to the nearest nickel, used postage stamps for change, sent out emergency calls for pennies to banks in neighboring towns...
Fanny Brice, able funnywoman, gave a lesson last week in how to win a lawsuit. Theatrical Agent Edgar Allen was suing her for $34,000 in commissions. Morning the case was scheduled to start Miss Brice sent word she was very tired, would like to sleep. The Judge granted a postponement until matinée time. When Miss Brice showed up, she sat next to her estranged husband Billy Rose, gaily chatted with him. On the stand, she was vague, noncommittal. Asked about her first conversation with Plaintiff Allen, she observed: "I think it started as a touch." Asked whether...
...married man with very little in the way of a formal education, he managed to get enrolled at Harvard, worked his way through, graduated summa cum laude with a Phi Beta Kappa key on his watch chain. A winner of the John Knowles Paine Fellowship, he was sent to Paris for two years to study with famed Pedagogue Nadia Boulanger (TIME...
This week, as he promised, Franklin Roosevelt finally sent his recommendations to Congress. Possibly piqued by Congressional balking of his Reorganization Bill (see p. 16), possibly too baffled by the railroad problem to have a solution, the President contented himself with sending along the Splawn report together with the comments of such advisers as Jesse Jones, Henry Morgenthau, J. J. Pelley, William O. Douglas, most of whom gave it less than complete approval. As his own comment, the President took occasion to call certain functions of the Interstate Commerce Commission "in all probability unconstitutional," to repeat his opposition to Government...
Instead of getting a chance to play in the show, Willow Joe is sent off on a fantastic publicity stunt, a ten-day trip down the Mississippi on water shoes, playing a guitar. Unlike his half-dozen drowned predecessors, Willow Joe makes it. Then he lands in prison for shooting a man. His luck gets worse & worse. Then he becomes a hero in a big flood, is rewarded with a nice farm in the hills. But come summer, the Pennys start complaining- even the clock "ain't been ticking natural" -and sneak back happily to the storms, floods, fever...