ten-twenty-thirty

Broadway take its entertainment broad, but Robert Visigoth laid the corner stone of subsequent fortunes when he decided that a ten-twenty-thirty vaudeville audience that smells sour of perspiration and strong foods demands entertainment as pink and as sweet as a baby's heel, and that a gunman in the gallery will catcall his prototype on the stage.

Star-Dust Fannie Hurst 1928

It was before the day of the ubiquitous moving-picture theatre that has since been the undoing of the one-night stand and the ten-twenty-thirty stock company.

Cheerful—By Request Edna Ferber 1926

The story would be all over Western City in a day -- this amazing, melodramatic, ten-twenty-thirty story of a miner's buddy in the private car of the Coal King's son!

King Coal : a Novel Upton Sinclair 1923

And this is certainly some ten-twenty-thirty show!

Little Miss Grouch A Narrative Based on the Log of Alexander Forsyth Smith's Maiden Transatlantic Voyage Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

This was because of his strongly-cut face, like the grand-ducal villain in a ten-twenty-thirty melodrama, and his habit of saying savage things in a soft, purring voice.

Queed Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905

And I think that's why something like term limits makes sense - people can serve in one position for ten-twenty-thirty years, and they get very complacent, and they forget the fact that their job is to represent and reflect the values and opinions and needs of their constituency, and they move closer and closer into, with the longevity of their service in any one particular position, to this comfort level that is more dictated by the party.

race42008.com 2010

And I think that's why something like term limits makes sense - people can serve in one position for ten-twenty-thirty years, and they get very complacent, and they forget the fact that their job is to represent and reflect the values and opinions and needs of their constituency, and they move closer and closer into, with the longevity of their service in any one particular position, to this comfort level that is more dictated by the party.

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"I knew a girl," said Marcia reminiscently, "who went on the ten-twenty-thirty when she was sixteen.

Flappers and Philosophers 1918