Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Western Newspaper Union, world's largest publishing syndicate, is valued by its owners at a conservative $8,500,000. Last week control of this little known enterprise remained safely in the hands of the dynasty which had directed it for half a century, but only after a good stiff intramural fight...
...learn the game the longest, hardest way. He won the U. S. title in 1931, held it for four years thereafter. A 30-year-old auto-accessories salesman, expert at bridge and handball, he smokes incessantly, applauds good shots by pounding his cue on the floor, plays in a stiff shirt...
...Scout, convoy on the first lap, had left the Ranpura's side and H. M. S. Veteran was waiting in harbor to begin the second lap, when the treasure ship steamed into the Bay of Gibraltar last week in the midst of a stiff southeaster. The gale picked up the helpless Ranpura, swept it aground on Punta Mala ("Bad Spot") in the northwest corner of the bay. Three Admiralty tugs rushed" to the rescue, but their steel hawsers snapped repeatedly in the foaming seas...
...viola section, has been a six-day bicycle racer, a dentist, a pharmacist, an engineer. Yarnspinner of the Orchestra is Trombonist Eddie Gerhard. Bill Greenberg, a viola player, proved himself a practical musician when he thought of the paper dickeys which the Philadelphians now wear instead of uncomfortable stiff shirts. Schima Kaufman values his typewriter next to his fiddle. He is author of an excellent book on Mendelssohn, is now working on a novel...
...Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers ; Dwight Deere Wiman, producer) is an historic show. Like The Little Show (1929), Music in the Air (1932), As Thou sands Cheer (1933), it stands as a definite milestone in the U. S. musical theatre. Fu ture productions which fail to measure up to its stiff standards of achievement may be considered to have retrograded. Such was the appraisal of the most gilded first-night audience of the 1935-36 theatrical season - a collection ranging from handsome Federal Housing Administrator Stewart McDonald to Hoofer Eleanor Powell-which roared in astonishment and approval all the way through...