Word: alan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hour (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is an elaborate demonstration of the not particularly startling hypothesis that any man's life contains moments when his whereabouts, if later questioned, would be hard to prove. Lady Dearden (Loretta Young) agrees to pay a blackmailer ?2,000 for letters written by Sir Alan Dearden (Franchot Tone) to his onetime mistress. At her rendezvous with the blackmailer Lady Dearden encounters two tourists. When, with Sir Alan Dearden as prosecutor, one of the tourists goes on trial for pushing the other one off a cliff, this chance meeting makes Lady Dearden a key witness...
Seven more candidates reported for the first time yesterday, making a total of 92 men to whom equipment has been issued. They are: William T. Glendinning '38, Robert L. Green, Jr. '39, Alan N. Jenkins '39, Frederick W. Jerome '38, Raymond G. Jones '39, Timothy J. Reardon, Jr. '38, and Robert C. Stuart...
...Carthage in The Road to Rome (1927), he spent one night with Amytis. Before Archduke Rudolf Maximilian von Habsburg was rushed out of Austria in Reunion in Vienna (1931), he was vouchsafed an evening with his old girl, Elena. In The Petrified Forest (1935), Public Enemy Duke Mantee killed Alan Squier before he had done much more than nuzzle Gabrielle. What happens to Harry and Irene in Idiot's Delight is somewhat hazy, but it looks like immediate extinction for both...
Since the days when Don Quixote went out and charged a windmill many a man has gone crusading for his crotchets. In the pages of London's augustly humorous Punch, Alan Patrick Herbert has for years been waging a single-handed combat against four humorless ogres: Prohibition, the Divorce Law, Commercializing the Thames, Bad English. Last week, in What a Word!, he collected his scattered witticisms against the murderers of His Majesty's English, proclaimed a jehad: "I declare a new and ruthless Word War; and I invite all lovers of good words to buckle on their dictionaries...
...whirlwind fund-raising campaign in 1924, left it with $33,000,000 in buildings and equipment, a $51,000,000 endowment that ranks fifth in the U. S. The University of Rochester does not have to worry about the quality of its president, able, young, onetime Rhodes Scholar Alan Chester Valentine, imported from Yale four months ago (TIME, Nov. 25). The University of Rochester does not have to worry about the brainpower of its faculty, which includes venerable Geologist Herman Le Roy Fairchild; able young Physicist Lee Alvin DuBridge; Historian Dexter Perkins. But last week the University of Rochester appeared...