Word: exploitation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York, the singing teacher told her frankly that if she liked to sing just for her own amusement, he would take her money. When she met Andy (Kent Taylor), a fresh pressagent, he was so rude she cried. To make amends he tried to exploit her farm background by having her drive a flock of geese across Broadway at the afternoon rush hour. For the first time in cinema history, newspapers treated this publicity stunt as wary metropolitan editors actually do treat such affairs- labeling it publicity and publishing it for its amusement value. Thereafter the story, scanning Wanda...
...Johnny Macionis, the Eli swimmers have piled up another remarkable record, and their exploit was the 58 to 19 ducking they gave the Tigers Wednesday night. It was a Navy team which last defeated Yale, and that was way back on March...
...Europe for ten centuries. For years Italians have been praying to the Mother of Christ that Princess Marie-José might have a male child. Only six days before she gave birth the Princess watched a performance at the San Carlo Opera House, applauded heartily. Her latest patriotic exploit was to leave her husband at Naples and go to Ethiopia whence she returned more popular than ever (TIME, March 30). Though Princess Marie-José's birth pangs came on prematurely there was time for her strapping Montenegrin mother-in-law, Queen Elena of Italy, to rush from Rome...
...Milan, which had car ried the Noyes articles after their U. S. publication. Mrs. Simpson had been discussing them with the Duke of Windsor by telephone to Enzesfeld and a wrong impression was abroad that Mrs. Simpson might be sharing in the financial returns of her relative's exploit. It was all most painful to her and the Duke - and to Mr. Noyes in the U. S. it was excruciating...
...call J. J. Duke. The man supposedly died in Germany many years ago. Once he lived in Winnipeg where, says David Fingard, he developed the machine and drugs, and confided them to David, smart young New Jersey-born son of a Winnipeg coal dealer. The young man neglected to exploit the treatment for several years. First he tried his hand at insurance and stock brokering, grew baldish and portly during his efforts, dropped them to promote the Duke-Fingard Treatment in California, China and England, where he heard the plea of Health Minister Sir Kingsley Wood...