Word: curtained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week's end the Monopoly Committee rang down the curtain on insurance, will raise it again in the spring.* Next act: an FTC lecture on its long dealings with general business, to be followed by the Federal Alcohol Administration on liquor...
...four pages on the broadside is occupied by a cartoon depicting Chairman Ernest R. Caverly of the Brookline School Committee balancing three Charley McCarthys on his knees. The caption reads, "Curtain! Action! KERINS!!!" The cartoon was drawn by Charles M. Kerins, which fact opponents have pointed out as an indication of the widespread nepotism that will prevail if Kerins gets elected...
...Money (sketches & lyrics by Nancy Hamilton, music by Morgan Lewis; produced by Gertrude Macy & Stanley Gilkey) is billed as an "intimate" revue. The authors, moreover, know what an intimate revue should be-crisp, topical, irreverent, with a small cast, an 11 o'clock curtain, a conversational tone, no green-and-purple spotlighting, no Bits of Old Baghdad...
Riders on a drafty Mass. Avenue trolley car were startled out of their numbness last night by harsh sounds, of altercation coming from behind the green curtain that separates conductor from lowly customer...
...inquisitive student, as he rose to get out at the Square, peeped around the curtain, was surprised to see a rotund little conductor shaking a pudgy finger in the face of Government Professor Fritz Morstein Marx...