Word: cues
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Taking the cue for all it was worth, M. Daladier replied: "Do I need to repeat to you this evening, my American friends, that France will never yield to either the menace of force or the blackmail of guile? . . . For us peace and liberty are inseparable boons. We [the U. S., France] do not need to be bound by texts, nor by pledges, to strive together for what we believe to be the good of humanity. We do not need to make contracts with each other...
...diffract the image at the bottom of the tube so that the physician has a clear view of the stomach wall as he twists the gastroscope. Insertion of the instrument is easy: the physician anesthetizes the patient's throat, grasps the gastroscope in both hands like a billiard cue, pokes the rubber end gently but firmly down the patient's throat and esophagus into his stomach. Examination lasts from three to five minutes, causes the patient slight dis comfort, but no pain...
Meanwhile the Chicago Opera, No. 2 in the U. S., chalked up the fourth week of its finest season since the plush & ermine days of Samuel Insull. Impresario Paul Longone, who was almost thrown out three years ago, had also taken a cue from the stockmarket and climbed slowly & steadily back into favor...
...Broadway's guinea pig, thus it is superfluous to say that Dwight Wiman's "Great Lady" ran twenty-seven minutes overtime last night, that the first two numbers get the show off to a very slow start, that in several of the chorus numbers the singing is off cue and inaudible, or, that the show "has the makings of" this or that...
...practices had been ended by consent decrees. In these decrees Ford and Chrysler not only agreed to refrain from coercing dealers to finance car sales through finance companies affiliated with Ford and Chrysler-they also agreed to stop advertising their affiliated finance companies exclusively. This gave Thurman Arnold his cue. Said he: "Monopoly is fostered when advertising is used to put competitors at a disadvantage for the sole reason that they do not have resources sufficient to expend equally large sums in advertising. . . . In the automobile financing field vast sums are spent by manufacturers to advertise the services of particular...