Word: anna
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thomas Bailey Aldrich, an organ recital, more speeches by amiable Critic William Lyon Phelps and ruby-nosed retired Editor Robert ("Droch") Bridges of Scribner's Magazine. Then one and all adjourned to view a collection of 170 sculptures by the only ; female sculptor in the Academy, capable, unassuming Anna Hyatt Huntmgton...
...Governor Alf Landon, duckhunting. New Jersey's Senator-elect William Henry Smathers, hunting in Berwick, Pa., barely missed being shot by his secretary. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., to Sea Island Beach, Ga. Secretary of State Cordell Hull, to Buenos Aires for the Pan-American Conference. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, a speaking tour of twelve lectures in 16 days. Said she: "I plan to try to plan my time better so as to have a more peaceful time...
Joining one of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt's White House press conferences, U. S.-born Mme Jean Adrien Antoine Jules Jusserand, stately wife of the longtime (1902-24) French Ambassador to the U. S., spun tales of oldtime Washington, likened her native land to "a quiet garden," war, scared Europe to "a crowded omnibus where any passenger can make trouble...
...Secret Journey is a wilder and more powerful book. Centring around a sinister moneylender, Mrs. Anna Ragner, who has involved Mrs. Fury in fantastic debts, it is written in an even more sombre key than The Furys, pictures events more nerve-racking, hysterical, violent. Mrs. Fury has borrowed in order to keep Peter at college, borrowed more to pay interest, pledged her furniture, the earnings of her family, the possessions of her son-in-law, the compensation paid for her son's injury. At the day of reckoning Peter returns after a year at sea, is astonished when...
...while he helped promote her into a directorship of her own. She directed Ruth Chatterton in Sarah and Son, which gave Miss Arzner her reputation for handling emotional drama. Arzner successes since have always been with this sort of material, featuring women players like Katharine Hepburn (Christopher Strong), Anna Sten (Nona...