Word: somehows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...industrial jobs; 2) work relief at subsistence wages will double the cost of relief, but work relief at prevailing wages will add about 50% more to that cost. The A. F. of L. clamored for prevailing wage payments, on the theory that the $50 per month rate would somehow tend to undermine existing union scales...
Derived from a novel by Robert Nathan, this picture lacks the satirical implications of its original but somehow achieves a simple and disarming charm which is likely to prove valuable at the boxoffice. A delicate and sympathetic, if somewhat disingenuous, reflection of the funny side of the Depression, it rates high in the scale of recreation-ground cinema, well above Central Park, a small notch below Zoo in Budapest. Good shot: a zoo attendant (Stepin Fetchit) advertising to the furniture dealer the excellence of the meat he feeds the lions...
...somehow fails to click. . . ." complained John Mason Brown in the Post. His critical box score was top that year...
...troupe went rolling year after year from one successful engagement to another, The Green Pastures grew into an enormous legend which somehow suggested the vogue of Uncle Tom's Cabin half a century ago. It played in churches, colleges, prisons, clubs, fraternal lodges as well as on legitimate stages. Biggest house played was the Shriners Auditorium (4,000 seats) in Des Moines in 1932, where also the biggest day's receipts ($11,000) were taken in. Smallest day's business ($600) was at Big Spring, Tex. Smallest theatre encountered (900 seats) was in La Crosse...
Perhaps she was never as strong and sturdy as her builders calculated on paper. Perhaps she had never really recovered from an old rib injury last year. Perhaps the wet windy weather had something to do with it. Or perhaps the crew was somehow at fault. Nevertheless orders are orders and therefore the U.S.S. Macon soared away from her Sunnyvale mooring mast on schedule early one morning last week to take her usual part in fleet maneuvers off the California coast. In command of the Navy's one & only dirigible and her 82 officers & men was Lieut. Commander Herbert...