Word: sharpest
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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Rightly or wrongly they acquired the reputation of working their casts harder, paying their chorus girls less, driving the sharpest bargains on Broadway. In 1927 Lee & Jake owned, leased or operated 43 first class theatres in New York, 55 in other U. S. cities, six in London. Came the Depression and the revolt of the Broadway angels. The Shuberts sold their British theatres; most of the others remained dark. Wall Street attempted to take over-with the predictable result that last week the bankruptcy became official. A loss of about $3,000,000 was disclosed. So Lee Shubert, who always...
...several years there has been a tense attitude of waiting along the public utility front. Stirrings in Congress and many a local skirmish have hinted that a decisive battle would some day be fought between Private Enterprise and Public Regulation. Last week in the Midwest the sharpest utility conflict of years was in full swing, one with giants as principals...
...first, but the second and third editions of Science & Health, upon which the copyrights are good until 1934 and 1938, respectively, are the ones which contain the material Mrs. Eddy's sharpest critics (including Mark Twain) have used against her, and which the First Church of Christ, Scientist now disavows. Most notable part of this material is a chapter expounding an almost voodoo theory of malicious animal magnetism, written by Mrs. Eddy in a moment of anger at former pupils whom she suspected of working against...
Even the G. P. U.'s sharpest critics do not suggest that resort is had, except in the most urgent cases, to "taking the glove off." This is supposed to consist in fixing the arm of the man being questioned in such a position that the hand is immersed in water. The water is then boiled. It is asserted that after a time the flesh of the hand can be drawn off like a glove...