Word: alan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...villains were named Hemingway. The charter members and founders were three disgustingly fresh young men who hate everyone, who trip up old ladies on stairs, wrest candy from children, push invalids down hills in wheel chairs and take away cripples' crutches. Most Horrible (official title) is Alan Brown, sophomore at Pomona College. The other two: Robert Forbes, sophomore at Stanford; Parley Johnson, student at Harvard School, Los Angeles...
Divorced. Lady June Inverclyde, London music hall artist, from John Alan Burns, Lord Inverclyde (Cunard Steamship Co.); in Reno. Lady Inverclyde testified her husband insulted her friends, "was never entirely sober," said she would marry Lothar Mendes, cinema director. Lord Inverclyde remained in Scotland, shooting grouse...
Mitten Move. Chairman of the board of Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co. is oval-faced Dr. Arthur Alan Mitten. His father, Thomas Eugene Mitten, operated P. R. T. through Mitten Management, Inc. until he died by drowning in October 1929. In addition to the greater part of a $3,000,000 estate, Son Mitten was bequeathed the painful legacy of rehabilitating the company. The nature of the late Manager Mitten's operations has been questioned, and last week P. R. T. was preparing to sue for possession of his estate. Gracefully and probably shrewdly, Son Mitten turned the estate...
...writers who can monkey with fantasy without getting just too cute for words. Inimitable Max Beerbohm managed it; some still think Sir James Matthew Barrie, Alan Alexander Milne. Christopher Morley have made surprisingly few errors. Fantasian Bruce Marshall follows a less gossamer authority, Gilbert Keith Chesterton; but in his hands the Chestertonian whimsy loses its robustiousness, gets all buttered up with sticky sentiment. Not that Author Marshall cannot be very sharp on occasion, but, like the latter-day Chesterton, he is sharp only with non-Catholic things...
...credit for eleventh-hour reforms forced on him by public clamor," was accompanied by a happy coincidence for Mayor Walker. In the preamble to its annual report, a City Affairs Committee of the National Republican Club publicly denounced the Mayor's private life. Chairman of this committee is Alan Fox, young G. 0. P. worker who made a name for himself by locally booming Herbert Clark Hoover for the 1928 presidential nomination. As a reward, the President seriously considered making him a U. S. District Attorney. Chairman Fox's report said...