Word: shadowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Competitor-Parasite- For 20 years the legitimate theatre, that department of the entertainment industry which is professionally known as the "meat show," has been subject to a terrific handicap from the shadow show of cinema, first as a competitor, now as an all-consuming parasite. A cynical analysis of this situation was voiced early by sandy-haired, hot-headed Burgess Meredith, youngest featured actor on Broadway, who saluted the Broadway managers thus...
Died. George Fisher Baker, 59, son, heir, namesake and successor of the late founder-chairman of Manhattan's First National Bank; of peritonitis; in Honolulu Harbor aboard his 272-ft. yacht Viking. Conscientious, conservative, he never made a speech or gave an interview, he lived in the lengthening shadow of his father's name. He had been First National's chairman since his father's death six years ago at 91, but active direction was in the hands of men like Jackson Reynolds and Leon Fraser. In poor health for the past three years, Mr. Baker...
...newly crowned King been able to talk to all his peoples in their own homes on the day of his Coronation. . . . The Queen and I wish health and happiness to you all, and we do not forget at this time of celebration those who are living under the shadow of sickness. ... I cannot find words with which to thank you for your love and loyalty to the Queen and myself. ... I will only say this: that if in the coming years I can show my gratitude in service to you. that is the way above all others that I should...
...beneath your Chapel's shadow...
...Wrote General Johnson in his Scripps-Howard column last month: "I know a small company that was started with adequate capital in 1929. The crash hit it just as it was getting under way. By some miracle of management it was kept alive through the long valley of the shadow of industrial death from 1929 to 1935. ... In 1936 for the first time it made money—enough money to pay off its debts. Can it do so? On its life it cannot. If it did the new law would assess on it a confiscatory tax almost as large...