Word: types
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Circle aims to stand or fall by a novel format of radio entertainment-a round-table type of informal-sounding chatter about anything under the limited radio sun, participated in by the elect of the entertaining world. The informality is achieved by the cast sitting down with the script writers few days before, sometimes tussling all night with the job. The Circle's, original members were Ronald Colman, a ten-year holdout against radio work; Cinemactress Carole Lombard; Leading Man Gary Grant; Baritone Lawrence Tib-bett; Groucho and Chico Marx; Robert Emmett Dolan and his orchestra. Early guests were...
Catherine Prehm ("Mother") Terry, 71, onetime woman compositor on the New York Journal, where she spilled hot type metal on William Randolph Hearst's dress shirt one night, now publishes the Klamath Free Press (circ. 1,050) in Bonanza, Ore., is currently campaigning to wipe out card gambling in tolerant Bonanza...
Jack Robinson, crusty old publisher of the Jewett, Tex., Messenger, whose handset masthead reads: "We Guarantee to Interest, if Not to Please You." When the "shorts" (hard times) come to Leon County, Editor Robinson takes off his shirt, deserts his type cases and rusticates along the river-bottoms. Returning from such" a vacation last year he scared the day lights out of most of Jewett with accounts of a mythical half-beast, half-man he had encountered. Sample Robinson "Town Note": "Some more mules and wagons in Jewett Saturday afternoon and not many cars, a little money floating around among...
...journey will in addition to a variety of hazards be subject to severe privations. Neither will it be necessary to take along any form of arms for in the unlikely event of there being inimical life on our satellite it is not probable that it would be of a type that would be seriously affected by [firearms...
Yale scored twice in the first period while the Crimson sextet scored once in the first and once in the third. The Blue forces, who entered the game as favorites to win were clicking smoothly throughout the entire 60 minutes of play, and turned in a far superior type of hockey than they have exhibited in recent weeks. Harvard was equally up recent weeks. Harvard was equally up to form, and scarcely seemed to show the effects of Tuesday's herd game against Dartmouth...