Word: vouched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week festival owing stagehands and orchestramen some $7,000. The amount he had to meet last week was only $1,500. By union regulations musicians are entitled to be paid in cash before they go into the pit. Last week's performance seemed doomed when no one would vouch for the $1,500 check even though Mrs. Albion insisted "this is one of the loveliest performances ever given and we want you to see it." Some one suddenly remembered that there was a folding portable organ hidden away in a storeroom. Up onto the stage in answer...
...other motive of the picture, as I remarked above, is to show the social structure of the Eskimo colonies. I cannot, of course, vouch for the accuracy with which this has been done; I imagine that the whole sequence has been rendered a bit too idyllic and too pleasantly pastoral to be an exact study, such as one might find in Prof. Tarbottom's third Ph.D. thesis on "Brow-ridge Variation in the Eskimo, with Concomitant Hypertrophy of the Frontal Sinuses." For all that, the photography is superb, the selection of scenes is accurate, and a coherent picture, a beautiful...
...paid for each & every copy of the magazine distributed by men's shops.-ED. Dog of Another Color Sirs: I cannot resist the temptation to write and congratulate you on your remarkable little magazine TIME. I have lately received them in batches from my brother, and can vouch for the extreme accuracy of your English news at least; so I am confident that all your foreign news must be of the same level. Myself, I am a glutton for reading books, papers, magazines, nothing comes amiss. To me, but for its size, I've never come across...
...Stone), shows him to be, like most department store owners in the cinema, dignified, harassed and nepotistical. When his children seem bored with his business and times grow harsh, he decides to sell out to a chain store operator. Then his young wife (Benita Hume) leaves him, his children vouch for their interest in the store and he meets old Benton eating his lunch in a little graveyard back of Service's employes' entrance. Benton points out that the motto on one of the tombstones-"Be Not Afraid"- may be even better for a live man than...
...myself in the business of helping some of my fellow citizens learn how to be authors, I have read with great interest your quotation from the Author & Journalist in your April 17 issue, which you entitled "Drivel Racket." I know the author of the article you quoted and can vouch for his complete sincerity in his exposure of the gyp games in the literary instruction field...