Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sudden as it was, the death of Publisher Ochs was not unexpected. For more than a year his own New York Times had his obituary in type, in 16 black-bordered columns. It told the familiar story of the poor boy, born in Cincinnati to cultured German parents who took him to Knoxville, Tenn. where, at eleven, he began delivering papers; how he became printer's devil and learned the pressman's trade. It recalled his dogged determination and the editorial shrewdness by which he made the Chattanooga Times a thriving. potent newspaper. Then came...
...brightening Wall Street sentiment had nothing to do with a sudden shift in the internal affairs of the New York Stock Exchange, which is something of a world to itself. The prospect of a hot contest for the presidency in the coming Exchange elections disappeared when Richard Whitney decided not to run for a sixth term. Since it was a foregone conclusion that the nominating committee would not pick Mr. Whitney to succeed himself, his friends were loudly urging him to break all precedent by standing on an independent ticket in order to vindicate his turbulent administration (TIME, April...
Because of the sudden illness of the leading actor, production of Robert Sherwood's "The Queen's Husband" by the Freshman Dramatic Club will be postponed until Thursday and Friday, April 25 and 26, it was announced yesterday by the executive committee. Henry H. Reed, Jr., who was to play the principal role as King Eric VII, is at present in Stillman Infirmary with a case of German measles...
...France, the effect is bright, colorful and joyfully inane. The damp scenes occur when things attempt to become serious. A Gilbert and Sullivan opus maintains a strain so consistently absurd that it is convincing; "Naughty Marietta" is only sporadically mad, and disturbs the audience by its sudden lapses into sanity. During the voyage to New Orleans, for instance, the cargo of maidens falls into the hands of pirates. These fellows, as villanous a crew as ever infested Penzance, leave their winsome booty strangely inviolate until it is wrested from their grasp by a troop of mercenary soldiers. In the fight...
...appreciate manner and appearance as well as vocal qualities, he made a prodigious impression. He got 18 encores, a screen test that led to bit parts in Dancing Lady and Student Tour before he was chosen for the lead in Naughty Marietta. More amazed than delighted by his sudden success, Baritone Eddy, now 33, plans to continue his concert stage career while performing in cinema. In Manhattan for a concert fortnight ago he gave his views on Hollywood and music: "Opera in the movies? ... It isn't entertaining enough. . . . The movies have proved a splendid school for opera people...