Word: taking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days after Cox arrived in Atlanta to take charge of the Journal, Atlanta's citizens crowded into a theatre to celebrate the premiere of a picture based on the work of a onetime Journal reporter: Margaret Mitchell (see p. 30). Cracked newsmen as Cox alighted at Candler Field: "He must have bought the Journal so he could get a ticket to the opening...
...equipment). Circumstances made it easy for the British Purchasing Commission to obtain the services of a front-rank U. S. businessman as purchasing agent. Though his hair is not white, Mr. Bloom last week turned 65 (Western Electric's retirement age), announced he would retire Dec. 31* and take the British Commission's job as Director of Purchases...
Trade centre turnover and the Federal Reserve Board production index again moved roughly parallel during the next period in which business began to take hope of autumn improvement. But in August the two parted company for the rest of the year, for in that month the production index practically ceased rising; then the sudden impact of war sent it zooming skyward to a November peak (preliminary estimate: 125, well above its recovery high, just equaling its all-time 1929 peak...
...poet colleague of Fielding named John Gay decided to take Italian opera for a ride. He picked his tunes from the songs the butchers & bakers sang, strung them on a lowbrow plot about London cops, gangsters and bums, made his tattered characters ape the flouncy foibles of London's diamond horseshoe. His musical show, The Beggar's Opera, became London's biggest...
...Jeno (Brothers, Look Ahead), asks a blessing on this rite (and on a plow concealed under the table, so that the land, too, may be blessed). At pasterka, or midnight mass, the swelling Gdy się Chrystus Rodzi (When Christ the Lord is Born) is sung, and the carolers take to the streets, rollicking the happy My tez Pastuszkowie (We Also Shepherds...