Word: worth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...annual contract negotiations, the peace talks were shifted to Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel. While reporters pitched pennies at a line in the corridor (chief winner: A. F. of L.'s Press Agent Phil Pearl) the negotiators in Room 105 wrangled for five hours., consumed $11.90 worth of sandwiches, coffee and milk. The results were inconclusive but the conferences went on. Said William Green in Washington: "... I solemnly declare we will never liquidate the American Federation of Labor for anybody...
...foreign press have been telling idle tales that the purging of Soviet organizations of spies, assassins and wreckers like Trotsky, Zinoviev, Kamenev, Yakir, Tukhachevsky, Rozengolts, Bukharin and other monsters has 'sapped the strength' of the Soviet system and caused 'demoralization.' This inane drivel is worth nothing but ridicule...
...Andy Kirk and Jimmy Lunceford are bands of the same style); whenever you hear a band playing with that feeling of being just behind the beat, but not worrying too much about catching up, and brass with great solidity but not noise, you have Kansas City swing and music worth listening to. Goodman tried to build a white band that could play this way (and had one for a while), but as soon as he added Harry James and the "powerhouse trumpet" style, he should have rented the band out for pile-driving, not for playing swing...
...Rand thereupon flew East to consider a future job at the New York World's Fair. Instead of a job, she drew a summons. Sharp little Billy Rose had brought suit against her, charging that he originated the title "Sally Rand's Nude Ranch" at the Fort Worth Centennial Exposition in 1936, owns all rights...
...Metropolitan technicians-Master Mechanic Fred Hosli, Chief Electrician Jacob Buchter, Master of Properties Philip Crispano-work with the very best equipment, but except for child auditors the Siegfried dragon, for example, seems hardly worth the trouble. This beast requires the services of eight men-two inside it, two to operate the pulleys opening and closing its jaws, one to shoot steam from its mouth, one to shout its music through a megaphone backstage, an assistant conductor watching for the conductor's beat through a peephole, a prompter speaking the dragon's words from the score. It is still...