Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...members of the Joint Investigating Committee were en route back to Washington where their Philippine colleagues will join them presently to prepare a report which President Roosevelt should receive by next January. Meanwhile, in Manila last week, a few days before a typhoon caused an estimated $4,000,000 worth of damage on nearby islands, Shadow Boxer Quezon stepped through two characteristically fast rounds against his own plan for advancing the date of independence...
...nationwide raid in Chicago, San Francisco, Butte, Pittsburgh and New York. Result was a motley crew of 23 suspects who, according to the Narcotics Bureau's New York head, Major Garland Williams, had used the Tong as the framework of a nationwide narcotics ring doing $1,000,000 worth of business a year...
Merry-Go-Round of 1938 (Universal). If it had no other virtues to speak of, this skedaddling musicomedy would be worth mentioning for one fact alone: it brings to a wider audience Comic Bert Lahr's theory that only a barytone can chop a tree. It has other virtues as well: Jimmy Savo, exquisite pantomimist whose film career was nearly blighted two years ago by a luckless appearance in Ben Hecht's & Charles MacArthur's haphazard Once in a Blue Moon; Billy House, fleshy Mr. Bones of old-time minstrelsy; addlepated Comedienne Alice Brady; Mischa Auer, well...
...mine in the Loop last night. He's given me scores of items in the past; some of them have been little scoops, too. And he's never been wrong. Here's one he dropped last night-you can take it for what it's worth. A prominent labor leader in Minneapolis will be 'taken for a ride' within two weeks...
Third great reason for small U. S. book sales is the price of books. If a popular magazine is worth five cents, a novel's reading matter must be markedly superior to justify paying 50 times as much for it. In England the sensationally successful Penguin Books, started two years ago with a capital of $500 and a small order from Woolworth's, selling paper-covered books for sixpence, has sold nearly 10,000,000 books. In the U. S. attempts to sell new books for less than $1 have come to grief in the past...