Word: angeles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Dorothy Dell Goff, 19, blonde cinemactress (Wharf Angel, Little Miss Marker); in an automobile accident; near Altadena, Calif. A series of beauty contests brought her titles of "Miss American Legion," "Miss New Orleans," "Miss America." Florenz Ziegfeld gave her a job in the Follies of 1931 after she became Galveston's "Miss Universe" in a $2.98 white bathing suit. In Hollywood she was being groomed for stardom...
Though Germany has given Thomas Mann only a grudging preeminence, Europe and the U. S. acknowledge him as one of the greatest living writers. Readers of his masterpiece-in-progress will echo the prayer of Critic Gabriele Reuter: "May the guardian angel of great literature sustain Thomas Mann, that he may complete this work as powerfully and beautifully as he has begun...
...League member to break the League's nonrecognition resolution and set a precedent that may cause serious trouble.* No matter how gingerly they handled Japan, nobody in Geneva was afraid of El Salvador. Sternly they talked of booting the recalcitrant little republic out of the League. Foreign Minister Angel Araujo ruffled his hackles to defend El Salvador's honor. "I do not believe the step taken by El Salvador will injure anybody in the world. ... In recognizing Manchukuo El Salvador acted as a free, sovereign and independent nation, which does not need any lessons in conduct except from...
...Angel Cake. To be the first licensed woman balloonist and the first of her sex to enter the stratosphere is the ambition of Mrs. Jeannette Piccard, wife of Professor Jean Piccard, twin brother of Stratonaut Auguste. A Bryn Mawr graduate, holder of a master's degree in chemistry from the University of Chicago, Mrs. Piccard is no amateur scientist. To win her license she must make three balloon flights with an instructor, one solo flight by day, one at night...
...airfield in Detroit. With famed Balloonist Edward J. Hill they took off at 5 a. m., drifted nine hr., came down with a bump in a field near Thamesville, Ont. 58 mi. away. Bruised when her companions landed on top of her, Balloonist Piccard was more concerned about an angel cake she had taken along. "I really don't know what happened to it," she said. "We didn't have a chance to eat it. I guess it got crushed...