Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lewis Rowland Paul Sebastian Blennerhassett, wealthy Throgmorton Street stockbroker, addicted like all his ilk to eating lobster salad at Pimm's. In King's Bench Division before Hon. Mr. Justice Branson, outraged Broker Blennerhassett brought suit for libel against a vendor of the silly jerk-on-a-string tops called yo-yos. The yo-yo man had advertised that a man named Blennerhassett had gone stark, raving mad from diddling with...
...efforts of a Blennerhassett to make a yo-yo perform for his children. He began with "deprecatory condescension. . . . The yo-yo was recalcitrant. . . . First it would and then it wouldn't. But the Blennerhassett blood was up. He was determined to make the little devil on a string do its stuff...
...orchestras have sprung up like weeds. In California it is considered normal for mothers to have cinema ambitions for their children and Karl Moldrem's baby orchestras are calculated to develop stage presence, self-confidence. His first baby band, in Eureka, Calif., presented the difficulty of finding real string instruments small enough for the players. (Wind instruments are too difficult for children.) The Sherman-Thompson Co. had some 13-inch violins made abroad, some 42-inch 'cellos, 48-inch double-basses. Karl Moldrem took his idea to Hollywood where film companies made "shorts" of his babies, publicized them...
...posters? Within a few years the boy was soliciting contracts from trolley owners all over the country. Today his company is the biggest card advertising firm in the world. It plasters thousands of vehicles with posters allegedly seen by 1,200,000,000 people per month. He heads a string of affiliated advertising firms, several utility concerns and a group of Florida development companies. He entertains elaborately, owns a country home next to John D. Rockefeller's at Pocantico Hills, N. Y. and a castle near Baden Baden which he bought from the Krupps...
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (AP) - Will Overhead won the Indianapolis Memorial Day race today. At the 250 mile post Babe Stapp was leading the string of roaring cars, but gave way to Overhead on the last half of the 500 mile grind...