Word: ve
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...training them to be steelworkers or experts in the fields of refrigeration, neon lighting, ultraviolet rays? We are not. Johnny Jones: Our schools today are enormous. In the DeWitt Clinton High School, for example, there are about 11,000 pupils. In that mass of youngsters we've got to get hold of Johnny Jones and fit him for his world and for his time...
...meeting was finally ended with an optimistic speech by Mrs. D. Leigh Cclvin, who predicted that national prohibition would be restored by the W.C.T.U. because "we've already done so many strange things." As a last cheering gesture a Mrs. Kaiser who "wore a brown ensemble with a light tan plume in her hat" sang one of her own compositions, the last lines of which carried this inspiring message...
...waved the finger and pushed back the upturned rim of his tan fedora revealing a stray black lock glued to his moist forehead. "Get a summons? Sure I got a summons. But I'm not going to see the commissioner. I've got no business with him. I'm a busy man. I've got no time to see him. I've got no business with him." Jabbing his finger at the inquisitor, Mr. Samuels emphasized the latter point, intimating that if the commissioner wished to satisfy his curiosity he could do so, but at 30a Boylston...
...most interesting and refined people," said Ann Corio, the country's leading leg-show prima donua, in an interview with the CRIMSON. "I like my work very much and although I have many movie offers, I'm afraid I wouldn't do as well on the screen. I've decided it's better to be a big shake in the kootch business, than a little wiggle in Hollywood...
...There is really a very well developed art in burlesque," said the girlesque queen. "And as for vulgarity, I have seen musical comedies on Broadway that are more vulgar than any show I've ever played in." Asked whether she received many mash notes from members of the audience at her shows, the birly-cue actress said. "Of course I do. Every girl in the 'honkytonk' gets lots of them. And you know, it's a funny thing, but a good number of theme come from college fellows. I guess other men must know better. I never answer these notes...