Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Never shoot into flocks larger than seven or eight-you can't kill them all and you will only frighten away the others for a long time...
...three years after he hit Greeley, Buzz was an enterprising nobody. Then in 1934 he tied up with Greeley's KFKA, a radio station in somewhat the same situation. He caught ranchers at breakfast daily in seven States with three-quarters of an hour of weather, livestock & feed prices, good humor, a singing cowboy and a guitar-twanging cowgirl with Bar X names (Claude Redman, Esther Gibson), plenty of come-ons for the Greeley Cash Auction Market. He put his auction pit on the air twice a week, took microphones out on the range for farm sales...
...greatest living master"-this time by somebody else.* In three of Manhattan's swank 57th Street galleries- Kleemann, Boyer, Valentine, he was being given simultaneous one-man shows. Another Eilshemius exhibition was touring the Pacific Coast; a fifth was about to be sent through the Middle West. In seven short years the Mahatma has turned from a crank to a cult. Manhattan's sedate Metropolitan Museum has three of his canvases, and he is represented in virtually every important public and private art collection...
...Seven Tower magazines (devoted to movies and radio, home and children, love and mystery) had shared a total circulation of some 900,000 copies before a Federal Grand Jury indicted Publisher Catherine McNelis for using the mails to defraud. (Case is still pending.) One of the best had been Tiny Tower for children, with around 150,000 readers...
...lover of Heine, an inveterate parodist and would-be musician, Untermeyer contributed second rate verse and lofty reviews to The Masses, The Seven Arts and The Liberator, only one of the three to survive the War. As superintendent of a jewelry factory in Newark, N. J., Business man Untermeyer invited his 150 astonished employes to unionize, claims he established the first 44-hour week in the industry...