Word: worth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brown and Sonny Burke, the former playing at the Raymor Ballroom and the latter at the Atlantic Beach in Revere are both good bands worth spending an evening listening to. Since he disbanded his Duke University band, Brown has gone in for a sort of pleasantly arranged sweet-swing that's quite good. For example, his theme, "Shang-ri-La," is something worth hearing...
...athlete who after an exhausting workout wonders "is it worth it?"; for the bespectacled lad who in his Widener cell asks himself "where is this getting me?"; for the socialite who in Hayes-Bickford at 5 a.m. muses "why do I ever go to Boston parties?"; for the Brooks House missionary who in the squalor of the slums demands "what can I do for them?";--for these men particularly the Crimson has been proven to have the greatest value. Now if your life--or your shy modesty--prevents you from being included in any one of the aforementioned categories there...
...needs. Her infant air industry, though encouraged by a $10,000,000 "educational" order from the mother country last year, is by no means equipped to supply such a quantity. Last week the Empire Training Planners waited only the embargo-lifting vote by Congress to place $100,000,000 worth of orders in the U. S., for 600 light trainers, 900 fighters and bombers. Of this cost, Britain will pay half, Canada onequarter, Australia and New Zealand one-eighth each...
Organization. Elliott Roosevelt himself holds no office in TBS, says he has none of his own money in it. TBS has thus far sold $350,000 worth of stock at $175 a share, most of it to Publisher Elzey Roberts of the St. Louis Star-Times, and his brother John; H. J. Brennen, owner of two Pittsburgh stations; David Baird of Manhattan. TBS's president is John T. Adams, onetime adman who prettified Lydia Pinkham's preparations for U. S. networks...
Last week at Pimlico the fans got their money's worth. After the first furlong Cravat was out of the running: it was Challedon and Kayak. Challedon went into the lead; halfway down the backstretch Kayak caught him, poked his brown nose farther & farther ahead as they streaked along against a backdrop of autumn foliage. As they rounded into the homestretch, Jockey Eddie Arcaro flipped his whip and Challedon began to run like a Halloween hooligan. He inched past Kayak and won going away, a half length in front at the wire...