Word: strings
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Back in Kansas, he was given so much publicity for having been a member of London's party that he found it easy to raise capital. He started a string of cinema theatres, married Osa Leighty of Chanute, lectured on South Sea life, edited cinema newsreels, then began explorations, taking pictures. When photographing dangerous animals, Mrs. Johnson, an expert shot, stands guard beside him. Once they spent 14 months cruising in a 30-ft. ketch with an engine so faulty that no one could sleep below on account of the fumes. Lashed to the hatch, they slept on deck through...
...hair (this was written last year), but a long line. They have an intimate acquaintance with a cigarette, have heard of a pocket flask, and choose their courses according to the unmarried status of the professors. They show a fighting Irish spirit in maintaining two or three or four strings to every bow. (He means four beaux to every string). They are not bad company...
...receiver and an injunction restraining Fox officers from paying either Mr. Fox or his family funds of any kind, she made bitter accusations. Chief of these: Cineman Fox bought $440,000 shares of Loew's at $225 when the market was $70; bought a $19,000,000 string of theatres in England without seeing them; spent all his time watching quotations, speculating with his company's money, neglecting its affairs...
...Quartet of New York City will be in the Court of the Fogg Art Museum on Friday evening, February 14, at 8 o'clock. This concert will be given under the auspices of the Division of Music and the Fogg Art Museum. Two of the members of this new String Quartet were formerly members of the Flonsaley Quartet...
This last conclusion seems unwarranted. There are more opera companies at present than at any previous period. Classical music is still the food of the sophisticated. But it is undeniable that the words "pompous" and "slow" carry the string of truth with them. The reason for this lies not in the radio, and certainly not in the "talkie". It may be fund in the amazing excess poundage of the operators themselves. With a Bayreuth baritone dangerously near the three hundred pound mark in possession of the lead role and with an unlimited heavyweight diva to repel his amorous dalliance...