Word: showing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This year's show, So Proudly We Hail, had Humorist Benchley's son, Nathaniel, for one of its authors, Assistant Secretary of State Sumner Welles's son, Benjamin, for another, Producer Freedley's son, Vinton Jr., for female lead. A musical free-for-all, So Proudly We Hail told of Manhattan's café society receding from the U. S., setting up as the monarchy of Cafeteria, forming an unhappy alliance with Mussolini & Hitler. With tunes that didn't seem too reminiscent, chorines that didn't sing too deep, ingénues that...
...Angeles' damaging flood receded and equally damaging Recession mounted, Zoopark found its cupboard bare. For three weeks, while drowned animals were buried and wrecked cages repaired, the park had no revenue. Animals were first cut to half rations, then to one third. Ribs began to show. Anna May sickened on mildewed hay. Babe the polar bear became too listless to sway. The Zoo's gaunt camel was too weak to get up off its knees. Said Manager William J. Richards, who had worked a year without salary to make ends meet: "The flood was what broke the camel...
...rent they charged was not more than $9 a month a room. Other States followed. Because of the various State laws there is no generalizing about the life insurance business, but recent figures for 49 legal reserve life insurance companies with 92% of the total life insurance assets show $4,686,000,000 (19% of their assets) in mortgage loans, $2,000,000,000 (8%) in real estate...
...Gertrude A. Canniff of Peekskill, N. Y. sued Mrs. Samuel Schiffer of Elberon, N. J. for $1,950, charging that last fall at Peekskill's horse show a prize stallion belonging to Mrs. Schiffer had reached out of his stall, bitten her hand, swallowed her wristwatch...
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...