Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theatre last week. Nora Helmer was played by sly, small Comedienne Ruth Gordon, who scored a huge personal success last year in a revival of William Wycherley's bawdy classic, The Country Wife. Sam Jaffe played the blackmailer, Nils Krogstad; Walter Slezak was the husband and Dennis King took the part of Dr. Rank. Instead of the stilted, outmoded language which mars most Ibsen translations, the play was given in modern idiom supplied by Thornton Wilder. Producer Jed Harris (Broadway, Coquette, The Front Page, The Green Bay Tree) worked in collaboration with Producer Richard Aldrich, who is this year...
...light summer reading was the 450,000-word document which President Roosevelt took with him last fortnight on his weekend cruise down the Potomac. The bulky treatise was entitled Technological Trends and National Policy, Including the Social Implications of New Inventions. Under the direction of lean-jawed Sociologist William Fielding Ogburn of the University of Chicago, the report had been prepared by a subcommittee of the science committee of the National Resources Committee. Last week with considerable fanfare and President Roosevelt's blessing it was made public...
...high jump and shot put Cambridge's Robert Kirk Inches Kennedy and Ali Irfan of Istanbul set new meet records. And Cambridge's Webster topped Princeton's Standish Medina, suffering from a pulled leg muscle, with a 13-ft. pole-vault. Though President Pennington took the 100 and 220-yd. sprints handily and President Brown breezed to victory in the quarter mile, these three victories in the field > proved invaluable when Princeton-Cornell proceeded to win both the mile and two-mile runs to bring their total to five firsts. As at Cambridge fortnight ago, the outcome...
Shortly the banks became alarmed about their loans, installed their own brewery management in the person of Garnett C. Skinner, a high-powered adman who had capped a spectacular career in the Hearst organization with eight months experience in a small Chicago brewery. When Adman Skinner took over, Prima was selling 30,000 bbl. of beer per month. Under Adman Skinner, who made a $35,000 salary before he was 40 as advertising supervisor of all Hearst evening and Sunday newspapers, Prima's sales dropped swiftly to about 5,000 bbl. per month. Losses mounted and Prima was finally...
Captured at 18 by the Caughnawaga Indians, young Smith ran the gauntlet at Fort Duquesne. There he witnessed raiding parties returning with the scalps of General Braddock's massacred army, the slow burning alive of nine prisoners. Instead of killing Smith the Indians adopted him into their tribe, took him 300 miles into the Ohio wilderness. In the five years that elapsed before he made his escape he acquired an unbeatable knowledge of Indian ways, a lasting hatred for the arms and liquor traffic that lay at the root of the bloody feud between Indians and whites...