Word: agented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...posed in front of his two-motored Sikorsky Amphibian at Milwaukee Airport, informed newshawks that he was leading a 22,000 mile expedition into the wilds of Brazil. He was disturbed, he said, by a shortage of carnauba wax. With him were a Johnson research chemist, a Johnson purchasing agent, two pilots, field laboratory equipment, specimen cases, cinema cameras, guns, fishing rods. Heading for Para, Brazil, was Dr. B. E. Dahlgren, botany curator of Chicago's Field Museum. Although the expedition had the earmarks of a happy combination of pleasure and publicity, Johnson's President Johnson announced that...
...Freshman each has been contributed by "a big game hunter, a missionary, a detective, a brewer, a governor a milkman, a state supreme court justice, a ship cleaner, a special agent for federal bureau of internal revenue" (not James Cagney), "a weaver, a mayor, and a welfare director." Whether University Hall's failure to lump this matter with "a Y. M. C. A. director" was accidental or a reflection on Y. M. C. A.'s welfare capacity is not known...
James Barton's father was a minstrel. His mother sang the lead in the original Black Crook company. He began his stage career at 5, played boat shows, tent shows, summer stock, vaudeville and burlesque, put in 15 years on Broadway, danced in the Ziegfeld Follies. His press-agent publicized him as "the man with the laughing feet." Professionals rated him as the world's No. 3 hoofer (No. 1, Bill Robin son; No. 2, Fred Astaire). But his reputation never satisfied him until he played Jeeter Lester in Tobacco Road (TIME, July 2, 1934). Barton tried...
...Special Agent (Warner) differs from other recent pictures of its school in that its hero (George Brent) is not a G-Man but a T-Man. He works for the Treasury Department and it is his business to bring a slimy racketeer (Ricardo Cortez) to justice by showing that he has not paid his income tax. The T-Man, operating under cover as a newshawk, does so by means of paying court to the racketeer's pretty blonde accountant (Bette Davis), to the popping of corks, headlines and machine guns...
...could not abide him. (I was the first Rounsevell ever to drink, curse and play cards.} From an Irish grandfather he acquired "a sense of humor, a taste for good liquor, a go-to-hell attitude." At 13 he left home, became in turn a farmhand, livery stableboy. book agent, hobo, telegraph lineman, miner, carpenter, banker. In 1913 he swore off liquor, has been a teetotaler ever since. (There are few men who in 18 years enjoyed more whiskey hilarity, exhaled more whiskey halitosis, suffered more whiskey headaches or caused more whiskey heartaches and tears.) For a while he sold...