Word: whose
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus did the men whose names are known strive mightily to alter a national psychology. Theirs in great part was the credit last week when on Thursday Oct. 31 U. S. Steel which the Tuesday before had closed at 174, closed at 193½, and Radio which had plunged to 38½ climbed...
...Steel. On the day on which its three month option would have expired United States Steel Corp. last week announced that it had purchased Columbia Steel Corp., Los Angeles, whose assets total $38,694,416. For this it paid approximately $46,630,000 in common stock...
...number of cats in the backyard and, observing six, declares it to be "five after one." But these gaucheries and the stiffness of many of the cast may be forgotten if you submit yourself to the best musical score on Broadway, the creation of a little Austrian kapellmeister whose farewell concert in London (1849) was followed by a triumphal exodus on a fleet of barges down the Thames when he heard, for almost the last time, the strains of his own "Blue Danube" ringing in his ears...
...tosspot. Now he confines himself to sherry, champagne His black silk stock, early Victorian wing collar and frock coat attract stares. An English wisecracker, he likes to pin actors with a phrase. Besides the Express, he writes for the London Bystander, for Manhattan's slangy Variety (stage trade journal whose language Editor Sime Silverman defends on the grounds that Variety caters "strictly to hams and theatre managers and acrobats...
...Small Italian donkeys upon whose backs a cross of black hair grows, believed to have descended from the animal which bore Jesus into Jerusalem...