Word: andrews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pittsburgh last week Andrew William Mellon—with the help of three Nobel Prize winners, 200 chemists, physicists and engineers most of whom hope to become factory executives, and some 1,500 bystanders-dedicated a project which he conceived when he tried to improve his French 28 years ago. His French, he told the throng last week, "is still what it was originally." But his conception has become a huge, new, nine-story, splendidly equipped factory for research...
Elliott Dinwiddy (Charles Ruggles) runs his department store and his love life at the dictates of the constellations. Both face a crisis when Dinwiddy learns from his astrologer (Andrew Tombes) that for the first time in 15 years his horoscope is right for a proposal of matrimony to his secretary. Myrtle Tweep (Marjorie Gateson). His success, from a planetary point of view, depends upon his bringing together before midnight, a pair of youthful lovers. Dinwiddy's attention settles on a cirl, Caroline Wilson (Eleanore Whitney) who, hiding in the honeymoon cottage in the furniture department when the store detective...
...infants are born simultaneously to Henry the VIII in Windsor Palace and to Pickpocket John Canty in Offal Court. Young Prince Edward thrives at the court, under the tutelage of the Duke of Norfolk (Henry Stephenson). Young Tom Canty thrives in the gutter, with Latin lessons from Father Andrew and whackings from his father (Barton MacLane). Prowling about London one day, Tom crawls under a bench outside the castle to take a nap. The Captain of the Guard hauls him out and is giving him a thrashing when Prince Edward comes out of the palace to call his dog. Prince...
...Slick-haired Ralph Greenleaf, 13-time world's "pocket billiard" (pool) champion : his 14th championship, after three years of retirement ; by beating nervous onetime champion (1934) Andrew Ponzi 125-to-107 in the final playoff of a four-way tie after a 66-game round robin; in Manhattan...
...court, but meantime Mr. Cummings had become chief prosecutor to the New Deal. Hardly was he well settled in Washington before the Department of Justice started to investigate Aluminum Co. of America and the income tax returns of the man who was supposed to dominate its affairs, old Andrew William Mellon...