Word: alan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author Alan Alexander Milne won many an audience with his play Mr. Pim Passes By. For those who remain to be won, for those who would like to be won again, he has made his play into a novel...
...Bronx home by night. Out of his small salary, bit by bit, he spent between $30,000 and $40,000 for old Chinese court robes, Tibetan embroideries and similar textiles. This bequest to the Museum was his entire estate, was uncontested by his nephew, only heir. Last week Alan Priest, the Museum's Curator of Far Eastern art, said the fabrics were worth far more than Donor Paul's expenditures, also said the gift makes the Museum's collection of Chinese textiles second only to that in the Imperial Palace Museum in Peking...
...Alan Garrett Anderson, director Bank of England...
...about 20 attempts, four London-Australia Sir flights Ross besides Smith and Hinkler's crew of were five, 30 completed: days; 1926, 1919, Sir Alan Cobham, 62 days: 1928, Capt. William Newton Lancaster and Mrs. Keith Miller, 32 days; 1929, Lieut. J. Moir, crashed 100 miles from Port Darwin...
...rather vulgar domestic with equal zest. Reginald Owen as an authentic prince is thoroughly royal in the decadent sense of the word. He has his amours, his noblesse oblige, and a sense of humor that fits very well with the American conception of prince-lings on continuous leave. Alan Mowbray as Josef, the valet, is a thoroughly snobbish servant of the more malignant variety. The burden of the comedy rests on him and he carries off his part very well...