Word: substitutees
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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To substitute for Tenor John McCormack, who refused an offer of $5,000 to come and sing (his daughter is being married shortly in Ireland), the Tribune found a fat barroom baritone named Tom Garvey, who was carefully planted in the audience. At the director's request for "any...
A great patron of scouting. Count Teleki was in charge of the vast Scout Camp which had its own police, hospital, specially constructed water and lighting systems and a Jamboree newspaper published in five languages. Scottish Scouts stepped out in kilts, French came in green jumpers, blue shorts and berets...
When Mrs. Helen Wills Moody fell ill last week of what her doctors called "sub-acute unstable fifth lumbar vertebrae symptoms" and what Sports Colyumist Westbrook Pegler called "a crick in her back," it looked alarming for the U. S. Wightman Cup team. The ablest substitute in sight was slim...
"State borders must to an extent be disregarded and the United States must be taken as one economic area. . . . Evil practices have hidden behind the bugaboo of State rights long enough. . . . We are trying to rid ourselves of the destructive aspects of the doctrine of laissez faire and to substitute...
In "wild" rubber (collected from virgin forests), putrefaction produces a disgusting smell. But most U. S. rubber comes from man-arranged plantations. Plantation rubber gets its smell from the sulphur or nitrogenous accelerators required to cure the rubber for commercial use. The Rubber Growers' chemists, H. P. Stevens and...