Word: takings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Crooner Abdul-Wahab will take no less than $400 for singing in the flesh-a fee the Italians never saw their way to giving him. On the British program, besides a coterie of other Arabic talent, broadminded Crooner Abdul-Wahab in person cleared his voice, began his popular warbling, sang in Arabic an "ode to Shakespeare." His fee for helping British imperialism along: $625 an appearance...
...Premier Edouard Daladier toured France's Mediterranean and North African possessions. The Daladier visit was officially an inspection of French defenses. Actually it was France's firm reply to recent, inspired Italian clamor for Corsica and Tunisia. Last week's answer told Italy: "Just try to take them...
Arriving in London with five baby giant pandas, first ever seen alive in Europe, bespectacled Floyd Tangier ("Ajax") Smith, onetime U. S. banker in China who turned big-game hunter, posed for pictures with one of them. He plans to sell some in London, take the rest...
...character, many an author has used the legend. There are variants by Molière, Shadwell, Mozart, Mérimée Dumas père, Byron, Balzac, Shaw. Not overanxious to compete with such a talented gallery, yet fascinated by the violent Don, Sylvia Townsend Warner decided to take the matter up where the others had left off-with Don Juan's damnation. And so she wrote After the Death of Don Juan (Viking...
...election will take place in the second week of March, Kerins last night hinted at "some support"; he is rumored to be backed by a Government Department campaign fund...