Word: slicing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...state, municipal and local government debts, $1,000,000,000 is today in default not counting another large slice not yet technically so listed. Not less than 410 cities and towns have defaulted on their bonds. This is not a bad record compared to industry's defaults, but it is a nasty record considering the fact that cities, unlike industries, have legal authority to collect revenue in bad times as well as good...
This his Negro valet, Irvin McDuffy, who brings the breakfast tray to the President's bedside each morning, could not long stand. The third morning Valet McDuffy took it upon himself to serve only one egg, one rasher, one slice of toast. The President ate, made no comment...
Samarang (Bennie F. Zeldman) is a thin slice of life among the Malay pearl divers, made by Ward Wing and his wife. Lori Bara, sister of Theda Bara. When they went to Samarang, the Wings were fortunate enough to find, first of all, a native girl too poor to have her teeth covered with gold. She was Sai-Yu, a 17-year-old dancer in a Malay theatre. Her father did not want her to act in cinema but since she was under contract to the local theatre, his objections made no difference. They discovered also a handsome young native...
Ella Virginia von Echtzel Wendel was hardly in her grave before heirs far from apparent began to clamor for a slice of the fortune which old John Gottlieb Wendel had founded in the fur trade and then grounded in Manhattan. Whole European villages claimed Wendel blood. From Brooklyn came a dull-witted housepainter who, as the self-styled son of the last male Wendel, laid siege to the whole estate, was sentenced to jail for conspiracy. One by one Surrogate Foley eliminated 2.,294 claims. After eleven months of spectacular hearings four fifth-degree relatives settled...
...backing a musical show for his artist friend Peter Arno, but the experience did not diminish his liking for and friendship with such characters as Robert Benchley and Donald Ogden Stewart. His aunt, Mrs. Leonard K. Elmhurst, backed The New Republic and Asia. Nephew Jock owns a substantial slice of Polo. Lately he was reported investigating the possibilities of founding a new cinema company...