Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lady of the Orchids. Item: a bedroom at 3:30 a. m. Item: a bed with ermine covers and a plethora of pillows. Item: Peggy Hopkins Joyce in a "creation" better known as a nightgown. Total: a bad French bad bedroom farce...
...points, Victor 19¼. Gross income of Radio for 1927 was $65,082,074; gross sales of Victor were $46,886,842, thus making the business of the merged companies about $112,000,000 annually. Plans provide for a complete merger of the two companies (not for the creation of a holding company) with a stock exchange, terms of which have not been announced. As the result of various recent mergers, Radio Corp. now controls or is affiliated with Victor Talking Machine, Radio-Keith-Orpheum (with its outlet for the Photophone) theatre chain, National Broadcasting Co. chain, Film Booking Offices...
...larger implications the organization may be of even greater importance. No country can sustain an artistic development unless there is some patronage of living artists. With the tendency in the United States towards the complete subservience of current creation to admiration for works of the past, a complete artist stagnation is not beyond the range of possibility. The growth of such a society as the "Harvard Society for Contemporary Art" will do much to make such a condition impossible...
...creation of a new specialized class in baseball brings the question around to the viewpoint of the spectator, from whose grandstand Mr. Heydler took one look at the problem. Half the nervous thrill of baseball comes when "the weak end of the order" comes to bat in a rally two runners on base, two out, the score in a ticklish position, and the pitcher up. How many in the bleachers would substitute invariably for the trembling of the game in the chances of a weak hitter or a pinch-hitter entering cold, the placid content in the assurance that Casey...
...Nolan, president of the Los Angeles bank and of the new combination. As the Merchants National and the United Security jointly own the French-American Banking Corp., the merger announcement really unites the three large Giannini banks in California which were not included in the recent creation of the Trans-America Corp. The triple merger, effective Dec. 8, will form the Bank of America of California, with resources...