Word: holds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this capacity he will be able to take an active part in the life of the House for the two years he will hold his Fellowship here...
...well-known comedian originated his inimitable bathroom humor in 1928 in a show called "Hold Everything," and with the exception of a straight part in the motion picture "Zaza" he has stuck to it ever since...
...Deanna Durbin, Universal's sweetish nightingale, also happens to be its biggest box-office asset. Last week her studio faced a nerve-cracking crisis-Deanna Durbin, having unmistakably outgrown short skirts, must be shown to her public as a young lady receiving her first kiss. Could Songster Durbin hold her fans, who like to think of her as a wide-eyed child with a full-bosomed soprano, after that historic peck? For the thrilling ordeal Universal chose an ingratiating fairy tale about a singing orphan who loses her slipper, wins her prince...
...below stairs, where the servants pool their savings to buy her a party dress and silver slippers so that she can go to the great ball. There unknown Connie captures the crowd by caroling a Strauss waltz. Her handsome, horsy young host (Robert Stack) canters over and, while cinemaddicts hold their breath, gives Deanna Durbin her first kiss, which had to be shot twelve times before it was considered impeccable enough to meet the exacting standards of Durbin fans...
Celebrating its first anniversary, the American Association of Scientific Workers, a society for the promotion of understanding of the relationship between sciences and social problems, will hold an open meeting at 8 o'clock this evening in Hunt Hall...