Word: strause
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reaching Manhattan after a taxing flight from France, oldtime Viennese Composer Oscar Straus met his son and daughter-in-law, who persuaded him to sit down at the piano for the first time in six months, strum a few chords from his operetta The Chocolate Soldier. "In Europe," sighed Composer Straus, "the day of the waltz is for the moment ended...
...Christmas on record. As the Christmas shopping rush got under way, news from the big buying centres seemed to hear him out. Some Manhattan stores showed daily gains over 1939 of as much as 45%. No. 1 U. S. storekeeper, R. H. Macy & Co.'s Jack Straus, said: "While our dollar volume this year is below the record year 1929, the transactions are exeeding those of 1929 by an average...
...began a German immigrant named Harry H. Straus opened what is now the U. S.'s No. 1 cigaret-paper mill in North Carolina with $2,000,000 put up by the big U. S. cigaret makers (TIME, April 8). Triumph of the mill was that it made cigaret paper from linseed-flax straw, hitherto a worthless byproduct. At present it is meeting a third of the Big Five cigaret makers' needs, will turn out sufficient paper for their entire output by the time reserve stocks are exhausted...
Although not officially recognized as a regular House sport, and therefore not counted toward the Straus Trophy, soccer has proved a very keen source of intramural competition since its inaugural this fall. It will be included in the regular series next year, it was announced yesterday by Adolf Samborski, Director of Intramural Athletics...
Anderson's Boat: Ewing Walker, Bob Fowler, Sam Goddard, Bill Homans, Fred Herter, George Hibbert, Ev Brown III, and John Straus...