Word: shop
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Micaela, but if there is no soprano hot-blooded enough to ape an untamed gypsy and sufficiently magnetic to project her titillating arias across the footlights and into the far reaches of the theatre, Merimée's story becomes cheap and long-drawn, Bizet's tunes trite and shop-worn...
...fame than a dozen "Ravens" would have done and in so doing is but illustrating the fact that to the average fellow in his senses the capacities of a notorious tosspot are more entertaining than the carryings on of some halfwit blackbird escaped from a nearby bird fancier's shop...
...plot is simple. Louise, the daughter of honest and conservative working people, herself employed in a dress-maker's-shop, has fallen in love with Julien a poet and "pillar of a cabaret" as Louise's mother succintly describes him. Julien has written frankly to the parents to ask for Louise's hand in marriage. The poet's careless life and invisible income do not prepossess the somewhat strait-laced parents in his favor, and they refuse his offer. Louise promises to clope with her lover if the opposition continues. After a fantastic picture of Montmartre at night in which...
...been completely proof-read and was all ready to be locked in the forms when the fire occurred. The Van Dyke Company is completely disrupted and is doing no work at all. The Yale Daily News, formerly published in the Van Dyke plant, is now being printed in another shop...
Sixteen sticks of dynamite went off at the back of the Sun office. New Year's Eve celebrants in the explosion area were bruised, cut by flying glass. The shop was shaken; partly shattered. Police called it crime fighting against the Sun's crusade...