Word: shop
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Hoover issued two proclamations last week: 1) he designated May 1 as Child Health day; 2) he created a special board of inquiry under the Railway Labor Act, which averted a strike of 4,000 shop and train employes on the Texas and Pacific...
...recently expanded with purchase after purchase his enormous business organization. Born in Tulchva, Hungary, in 1879, he came, a small boy, to Manhattan's East Side, there peddled shoe polish which his father made over the family stove. Later, he sponged pants, coats in a Manhattan tailoring shop. Still later he cut out cloak and suit patterns for $17 a week. Twenty-five years ago, when feature pictures were 500 feet long, Cineman Fox opened, in Brooklyn, his first theatre. Nobody came to see the show, so finally he hired sleight-of-hand artists to do tricks in the lobby...
...late Mrs. Erne Gunderson found her large home packed with 50 house dresses, 30 pairs of shoes, unhung pictures, linen, scarfs, table and kitchenware, all unused. Explanation: Mrs. Gunderson, long poor and suddenly come into money, bought everything for which all her life she had wished to shop...
...town's most recent arrivals is already most sought after of the show shop amusements. "Journey's End", by a young English insurance adjuster, R. C. Sherriff, is both the greatest war play ever written and the finest new drama seen on the New York stage this season. One set, a dug-out, suffices for the play which presents a group of Englishmen confronted with the single and terrible protagonist of the war and inevitable violent death. Their reactions, intensified to the last degree, make for scenes of heart-breaking dramatic beauty. Colin Keith Johnson establishes himself as a great...
...Jitney Players. If you spend your summers in New England you may possibly have seen a troupe of mummers trundle into town of a hot summer's night, in motor trucks, unpack their scenery and their costumes and set up a show shop on a tennis court or a golf course. The Jitney Players have been touring in that fashion for six years...