Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After ten years of silence, Ruth got the old showman's urge again last winter. She warmed up with three guest appearances on Rudy Vallee's radio show, then put in a three-week nightclub hitch (for $4,000 a week) at Manhattan's big, brassy Copacabana. By that time she was ready for radio again...
...Going on ten years old. the Hooper agency employs 500 people (including twelve experts in New York whose only function, says Hooper, is to smooth the ruffled hair of hucksters). Its income last year was $983,000. For 1947, things are looking...
...publicity," Grandma Moses remarked, "that Im too old to care for now." The little old lady has spent almost all her life in peaceful obscurity, farming, and educating her ten children (TIME, Oct. 21, 1940). She herself never went to school much, "owing to the cold, and not warm enough clothing." But last week she did try her unschooled hand at an article (in the New York Times Magazine) to explain how she goes about painting. The Times printed it just as she wrote it. Excerpt...
...find reading matter for those he has taught. With money from Publisher Marshall Field, he hopes to build up a people's press to provide his millions of "fellow scholars" (graduates of the people's schools) with cheap books in Basic Chinese. His goal: in ten years, only 10% illiteracy in China...
When The Green Pastures opened on Broadway in 1930, Variety thought it was "dreadfully lacking in box-office ability," predicted that "a ten-week stay ... should be sufficient." Variety was dreadfully wrong. Alexander Woollcott, guessing better in the New Yorker, said it was "the highest peak in the range of the American theater." Brooks Atkinson, in the Times, called it "the divine comedy of the modern theater." The Green Pastures (based on Roark Bradford's stories) won a Pulitzer Prize, ran for five years, played 1,779 performances in 203 cities to nearly two million people, grossed...