Word: teller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intermission performance on a stage equipped only with a hand curtain. An audience of 750 which included Cinemagnate Jesse Lasky, Producer Max Gordon. Mr. & Mrs. Alan Campbell (Dorothy Parker), cheered itself hoarse after the performance and then adjourned, like most of the cast, to the barroom of the Teller House next door, to which President Grant once made his way over a pavement of silver bricks...
...often to choose between meat for dinner and postage stamps for the sales letters. She always chose stamps. That year and the next S. S. McClure sold stories by Kipling, Stevenson, Conan Doyle, etc., to a dozen papers. The newspaper syndicate business in the U. S. was started. Teller of the tale in last week's Editor &Publisher: S. S. McClure...
...used strong language as a matter of course, but always men who could never hide their great hearts") is a little wearing. But the comicalities of Hibernian dialect cover a multitude of insincerities: " 'It is given up to me,' said Jamesy complacently, 'to be the best teller of a ghost story in all Kerry. Paddy Joe Long is good, an' Rogue McCoy, me curate, is damn' good, but give me two pints an' I'll make your eyes crooked an' you tryin' to look through the back of your head...
Hanfstaengl, according to the Associated Press, walked into the German banking house of Delbrueck, Schickler & Co., wrote out a check for 2500 marks to the order of President Conant and said to the teller...
Friday Evening, May 11 *Triumphal March from "Aida"Verdi *Overture to "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Mendelssonn *"Madame Butterfly," Fantasia Puccini *Nocturne: "Festivals" Debussy *Overture to "Rieuzi" Wagner Chorus and Orchestra: The Snow Elgar Carnaval Fourdrain *"The Fortune Teller," Selection Herbert "People of Vienna" Ziehrer *First Hungarian Dance Brahras Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...