Word: containment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...late Dancer Maurice (Mouvet); to Samuel Katz, 37, potent president of Publix Theatres, of which there are 1,100, including Manhattan's gold-domed Paramount Theatre; in Stamford, Conn. For his bride Cinemagnate Katz is constructing a "city" on a hillside near Centenary, N. Y. It will contain lakes, bridges, swimming pools, 150-car garage, tennis courts, bowling alleys, a house that would cover an entire city block, a separate "hotel" for Katz guests...
...attention to campaign canards. . . . In the interest of truth I am compelled to deny that I ever urged or suggested that Mrs. Willebrandt discuss any man's religion . . . nor did I ever insert any religious comment in any speech she ever made, nor was any manuscript of hers containing any attack on any man's religion or raising the religious issue ever submitted to or scrutinized by me, nor did any manuscript of her Springfield speech which came to headquarters contain any such expression as 'Go back to your pulpits and preach this doctrine' or anything...
...shopgirls, stenographers, penny-wise housewives who make up a large portion of Woolworth buyers will find a 10¢ lovestory magazine, containing all the romance that 25¢ love-loring publications contain...
Because a drinker's urine, blood and cerebrospinal fluid contain alcohol, the amount therein furnishes a quantitative test of his bibbling. But because susceptibility varies, such amount can at most give only a presumption of his intoxication. By such test was Wilmer Stultz, the trans-Atlantic flyer, pronounced drunk after he killed himself recently (TIME, July 15, 1929). In the living person the test must be made very soon after he is charged with being drunk to have value, because alcohol oxides rapidly, and disappears from the system as carbon dioxide and water...
This book's 823 pages, published last fortnight simultaneously in four languages in Budapest, Berlin, Rome, Lcndon and New York, contain all of Ferenc Alomar's 20 plays. Written in Hungary, most of them have been, are being, played the world over. Some resumes...