Word: testing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Taste Test...
Your "taste test" suggested by Subscriber Lyman Richards of Boston reminds me of a sworn-to-be-true story heard recently at dinner. It does not concern Fiddler Kreisler, nor a Blind sign and cup hung on any famed musician. But it is a thrust, I think, against Mr. Richards' complaint of a widespread musical hypocrisy and his statement that people "impressed by the eminence of artists claim to appreciate what they neither enjoy nor understand...
...forwarding under separate cover a sales booklet which came into my hands recently. I cannot vouch that this test actually took place, but should it only be an impressive piece of high pressure sales talk, I believe it smacks of the truth so far as it concerns monetary returns...
...Louis, James Carson of Philadelphia, John Atwater of Rockville Centre, L. I., and seven other men in evening dress suspect when they joyfully and separately entered the Hollywood Restaurant on Broadway one night last week, that they would soon be hustled out as subjects for a prime Prohibition test-case in Manhattan. The Hollywood is a popular middle-class night club of the post-Texas Guinan epoch. Its patrons are attracted by its moderate prices, its undress show. The place is Dry in that the management does not sell liquor, though it does furnish "setups" for guests who bring their...
Tomorrow afternoon the 1933 team meets its first real test when it plays Milton, at Milton. By virtue of its recent victory over the Harvard seconds, however, the team will be favored in the encounter...