Word: zodiac
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan's dramatic pages were stodgy affairs, choked with publicity handouts. Kaufman tabooed these "dog stories," brought a light touch-which has become standard-to the writing of copy. When an underling became ponderous by introducing into his stories fancy footnotes requiring asterisks, daggers and signs of the zodiac, Kaufman cured him by throwing in a footnote of his own, reading: "Does not carry dining...
...five out of six "standard" astrology books that Dr. Farnsworth examined, it appeared that a person born under Libra ("The Scales"), seventh of the zodiac's twelve signs, should have musical ability. Libra's children are those born from September 24 to October 23. Looking up the birth dates of 1,498 musicians, Dr. Farnsworth found that fewer were born under this sign than under any other except Scorpio. Libra and Scorpio were in fact tied for last place as musician-makers. Thus in picking a musical sign the astrologists could have made ten better choices than Libra...
Hotel Haywire (Paramount): a rollicking mêlée precipitated when Spring Byington finds a pair of women's silk panties in Lynne Overman's pocket-prolonged by Astrologer Zodiac Z. Zippe (Leo Carrillo) supplying both with detectives recruited from vaudevillle...
...Steuben Glass is excellent. The lines are good and the designing by Waugh, taking classical mythology as a subject, are well executed. His Zodiac Bowl is probably the most famous and has drawn the highest praise from all over the world. An unengraved piece, a huge brandy sniffing goblet, takes your breath away by its sweep and simplicity and the transparency of the glass...
...sure that the churches of Christ are all really favoring a mechanized calendar? . . . Should any, past the time when the moon means much to them, be allowed to remove this happy last irregularity from our lives? . . . Long since, the noble signs of the zodiac were ignored by the bespectacled time-meters, and they are by this near two weeks out of our monthly reckoning. Now Easter Day is to have the full moon resplendent no more in her sky. . . . It is pretty bad. We're going to stop being lunatics after all. The moon is to be evicted from...