Word: thanks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have read your entire article on organists and enjoyed it. Most of it is Gospel truth. The organists should thank you for paying them the compliment of a little attention in TIME, but they won't. That's the kind of people they...
...publicity representative of foreign language newspapers. Another was Abe Salitsky, junkman, who did not know Insull and had lost $50,000 in the collapse of the Insull companies. He put up a $60,000 apartment house. To his six benefactors Sam Insull made a little speech: "I want to thank you. This is encouraging. I appreciate it more because I've only met one [Palandech] of you before...
...Well, thank goodness, he's croaked." Those words carried clearly from the auditorium jampacked with students of Ohio's Kent State College up to the stage where Dancer Ted Shawn with his group was miming the end of his interpretation of John Brown. A few snickers followed. Dancer Shawn played on until the last curtain fell. Then he raised a long finger to hush the applause, folded his arms and spoke: "We've played before audiences in New York and Boston, we've played before the hillbillies of the Carolinas and the cowboys of Texas...
...another, producing pitch-pipes, whacking on merchandise with wooden spoons. Clerks tried to interest them in bargains. Customers tittered and asked bewildered floorwalkers what it was all about. But the four strange shoppers went on about their business. They were assembling a kitchen orchestra for part of the thank-you concert that the Chicago Symphony was giving the patrons who had subscribed $59,340 toward the $70,000 deficit. At the concert, motherly Mrs. Stock laughed until she wheezed. She had never known that her Frederick and his men could clown so. For one act the bassoon choir came...
...THANK YOU, JEEVES! - P. G. Wodehouse - Little, Brown ($2). Funnyman Wodehouse finally rewards a faithful servant by making him the hero of a full-length novel...