Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seen a city editor at a Broadway first night in a tailcoat, or, later another evening, at the opening of a most ultra night club on New York's riverfront. No, it all seemed a bit too movieish for a news-man's life. (The rest of you can stop now if you want to; this is going on for some time...
...does the merriment stop with the performance; rather, in accredited dialect--You ain't seen nuthin' yet. Invited by the charming ushers in evening gowns, you join the cast on the stage for a preliminary cup of coffee and a sandwich gratis. Follows then community singing and dancing, all very folksy, and you can take home anything that strikes your fancy. You will find Belle Livingston just a bit elderly for your tastes, but she is very nice about bringing the young people together. Restrictions are of a naive nature, to quote the program, "Kindly refrain from cracking peanuts during...
...While police and safety officials held their breath the car hurtled over six-inch railroad spikes at 60 m.p.h., had its rear tires slashed by automatic knives. What made the demonstration remarkable was that after the blowouts the car did not swerve dangerously but was brought safely to a stop under full control...
...them tower 27 ft. above the floors, extend down another 12½ ft. into concrete pits. They deliver against the blanks a working pressure of 2,000,000 Ib. The triple-action stroke will not start until four men use both hands to push starting buttons, will automatically stop unless each operator keeps both his buttons down...
...German whose name is Lotte Lehmann.* Lotte Lehmann began her busy season with the San Francisco Opera, later sang in opera in Philadelphia, in Chicago. One of her 24 recitals was in Manhattan last week, when pure German Lieder brought an uproar of applause. Lotte Lehmann's next stop was Detroit where she sang over the radio on the Ford Symphony Hour. She hurried then to Boston to sing in the famed old mansion which belonged to Mrs. Jack Gardner who had Nellie Melba for her guest there 30 years ago. Back in Manhattan she was then to sing...