Word: springboard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night at my hotel various representatives of the Army and Navy, particularly Captain Joel Boone of the White House [President Coolidge's physician]. Captain Boone stood in good favor with the Press and Cabinet and leaders in political life, and for them to appear at our play (The Springboard, no success] at his suggestion would mean space in the newspapers...
...factory, which gave him enough money to be a Harvardman, raise delightful hell in New York. To Mill-Superintendent Thayer it was the whole U. S. To his silly wife it was the small town to which she was condemned. To his daughter Marjorie it was the springboard to dramatic triumphs in Manhattan. To Micky, level-headed Irish girl who worked in the Baumann mill, it was just things-as-they-are, and pleasant enough when she went down to the seaside cave with her Portuguese lover, Ramon. To Labor Agitator Marvin, Fullerton was another opportunity. When the Baumann mill...
Since then Pacific Western (which owns the remainder of E. L. Doheny's former Pacific Coast properties, a 40% slice of the Elwood field, and a half interest in Kettleman Oil Corp.) has been Jean Paul's springboard. Pacific Western is a considerable producer but lacks outlets. In the spring of 1932 J. Paul Getty started collecting the stock of Tide Water Associated Oil Co. (which in 1926 acquired control of Associated Oil Co). Tide Water Associated has plenty of outlets but lacks production. It is also five times the size of Pacific Western. Last week...
Lady for a Day (Columbia) is a Broadway sob story, highly effective because in it sentiment is used mainly as a springboard for comedy. Its heroine is a quaintly incredible old woman who sells apples on a Manhattan corner, guzzles too much gin, and corresponds with her daughter, whom she is sending to a Spanish convent, on the stationery of an expensive hotel. Apple Annie (May Robson) finds herself in a dilemma when her daughter (Jean Parker) writes to say that she has become engaged to a young Spanish grandee and that she is bringing him and his father, Count...
Thousands of college graduates listened during the past fortnight to scores of commencement day speeches in which the predominant text was the New Deal. Rarely before had campus bigwigs found so handy a theme for their intellectual springboard. Most of them pointed with pride to President Roosevelt's program, lauded his use of college professors, wound up on a lofty note about public service...