Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moritz an English producer spied them, hired them to do a turn in a London ice show. In London last winter a U. S. promoter saw them, hired them to do their stuff at Hollywood's Tropical Ice Garden. When the Tropical Ice Garden melted after four weeks, Frick & Frack got one job and another, finally found themselves in St. Paul's Skating Carnival. There Producers Shipstad & Johnson, who know a good comic when they see one, grabbed the boys from Basle-at $500 a week for 48 weeks of the year...
While the Ice Follies were attracting 94,000 Manhattan spectators last week, two other first-class ice shows jampacked U. S. and Canadian arenas...
...Still in rehearsal last week was still another grand-scale ice show, the European All-Star Ice Revue. Its cast includes two dozen British skaters who found themselves jobless this winter, Switzerland's famed Armand Perren (King Leopold's skating instructor), South Africa's Edwina Blades and New York's peppy Audrey Peppe (twice runner-up for the U. S. amateur figure-skating championship), who turned professional last week...
...Knoxville last week undefeated, untied Tennessee wound up its football season by beating Auburn, 7-to-0, for its tenth shutout of the year. Six hours later, Coach Bob Neyland received the phone call he has waited for for 13 years: from Pasadena, inviting his team to play in the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day. Tennessee's opponent: Howard Jones's undefeated Southern California powerhouse (often referred to this season as "three of the four best teams on the West Coast"), which was held to a 0-to-0 tie by gallant...
...should like to see the palace turned into a home for people fallen on evil days at the end of their lives. If they had ten bob [$2] a week-or even less-they could come here and live in a nice house with a common room and a pleasant garden to walk in. ... One cannot let a bishop's palace any more than one can let a vicarage; that is one of the penalties we pay for Establishment. ... If I were allowed to move into a smaller house I should be better off... despite the fact that...