Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Metropolitan Opera was also assured last week of one more season at least. Shrouded in mystery has been the Metropolitan's second tin-cup campaign. The public was solicited but not informed of the needed guarantee. At an expensive opera ball staged to represent the Court at Fontainebleau in the reign of Louis XV, Soprano Lucrezia Bori came out as Mlle Cleophile de L'Opera, curtsied to such royal impersonators as sleek Artist Boutet de Monvel (King Louis) and Mrs. Vincent Astor (Austria's Maria Theresa), dramatically declared that the Metropolitan was saved...
...abroad of late, but sits in close-striving study over Kant's "Ethics," and for relaxation counts the number of students taking History 1 in the New Lecture Hall. In the evenings he watches the first of the terrific little moths fling themselves with pings of desperation against the tin shade of his study lamp. And in the mornings, supine upon his pallet of horrid languor, he gazes with admiration at the accurate spider stretching her slow web across a corner in anticipation of the few flies which wander solemnly through the unremembered rafters of Memorial Hall...
...read on them that for the price of admission ($1.50) they were not only entitled to the spectacle itself, but "Free Eats, Drinks and Be-merries." Inside, the place looked just like what it was supposed to be: an oldfashioned beer & music hall, with advertisements painted on the olio, tin guards over the footlights. Not only in the matter of eats, drinks and be-merries does the American Music Hall surpass the old Morley productions (which had no tables and obliged the patrons to step down the street for their beer), but its actors for the most part refrain from...
...Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt removed Sheriff Farley from office after the Hofstadter-Seabury investigation into New York City's municipal affairs revealed he had banked more than $300,000 above his salary. Sheriff Farley claimed he earned the money before taking office, kept it in a "tin box," deposited it now & then...
...Education in the U. S. is a beggar with a tin...