Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...production manager, Milton I. Shubert, nephew of famed Producers Lee & Jake Shubert of Manhattan, trotting nervously about the wide stage, castigating carpenters, bellowing at ballerinas. A characteristic Shubert addition is the $10,000 revolving stage, largest in the U. S., built between Forest Park's renowned and majestic twin oaks (heavily insured, dosed with castor oil to fend off sickness). Director Shubert has $36,000 to spend on each production, a chorus of 84 "Muny"-trained native sons and daughters, a professional ballet of 16, a symphony orchestra of 50, a different cast of first-rate performers for each...
Pictures and comment in the Parisian journals made the homeless waifs the idols of the warm-hearted French. Some enterprising merchant fashioned a Siamese-twin-like yarn doll representing a boy and a girl which was immediately seized upon by the Poilu as a good luck fetish to be worn around the neck. Soon everyone wore them in every Allied army...
Sued for divorce. By Julia Tiffany Parker, 'twin granddaughter of the late jewelry tycoon Charles Lewis Tiffany: Gurdon S. Parker, Manhattan architect; at Reno...
...stockholders: I) "I do not think so" (in reply to a stockholder who asked whether the disadvantages of giving up the Burlington would not outweigh the advantages of merging the two Northerns); 2) The Northerns are "considering" the purchase from the Burlington of its line from the Twin Cities to Aurora, 111., and the leasing of trackage rights from Aurora into Chicago...
There are two million bricks in the twin smokestacks of the ex-power plant, and each one must receive personal attention before its relations with Harvard University can be severed. A brick is like nothing else in the world. It cannot be suspended, for a well-established precedent rules that each brick must be placed firmly on the top of another. It cannot be placed on probation, because one small laugh would bring down the house. From the moment when it enters the kiln as an amorphous piece of clay with possibilities, a brick is doomed to be fired...