Word: cornucopia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famed Hollywood Bowl summer concerts are the regular winter programs of Los Angeles' 20-year-old Philharmonic Orchestra. Golden Age of the Los Angeles Philharmonic was between 1919 and 1933, when the late copper tycoon William Andrews Clark Jr. lost $250,000 a year on it. When the cornucopia stopped flowing at Clark's death five years ago, a group of conservative Los Angeles socialites managed to keep his orchestra alive, but gave it less lavish rations. Proud were they of getting as permanent conductor world-famed Otto Klemperer. While the plump palms of Los Angeles' highty...
...posing for photographs in an artist's smock and beret. Sculptor Bufano made a scornful sketch of Sculptor Pegler's statue. Finally completed last week and cast in plaster, Pegler's model was shipped to San Francisco. It was called "Mrs. George Spelvin" and included a cornucopia, a gear wheel and an unexplainable mouse...
...anticipated-but bad enough to spur Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace's efforts to perfect a new wheat-loan program. And such were the prospects for the three major crops (others appeared to be in fairly normal shape) that Secretary Wallace and President Roosevelt prepared to dump the cornucopia of Government largess as never before...
Union Bag was originally not a maker of bags but of bag-making machinery, sold under license agreements. Up to the Civil War paper bags were improvised by wrapping old paper around one's arm and twisting the end like a cornucopia. Flat bags were developed in the 1860's and with them patented machinery for large-scale cutting and pasting. When it became evident that there was more money in making bags than bag machinery, Union Bag's predecessor merged with a group of companies operating under its licenses...
...bathos in which his oracle is suspended. Now, we are told, the people has passed through its crucible, and is prepared for the higher things which someone, perhaps Mr. Schwab, delayed until it could appreciate them. One almost expects that Mr. Schwab will wink indulgently and produce a cornucopia from under his coattails, unless one already knows that subtle wedding of economic ingenuousness and business ingenuity which is Mr. Schwab's mind...