Word: appearently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inspiring. Whatever else may be said about the organization, it must of necessity cull from the more educated ranks of American society. As a result, for years it has been only a question of time before twentieth century ideas would make the activities of the D. A. R. appear so loath-some that no clear-thinking modern woman would venture to have her name on its rolls. In a few years more the sight of a beribbonned clipper-ship sailing through the Mayflower lobby in Washington will rank as a rarity with the Folger Library and the piano...
...facts stand, Michelson does not appear to have put on any dangerous dictatorial powers or attempted to club the press into abolishing Lawrence and his column. But the incident gains significance as an example of the fear in which the men who oppose the Administration walk. Lawrence's outburst sounds like the premature cry of a threatened child, but in a genuinely democratic country governmental officials should stand in danger of losing their jobs when they take so uncompromising and menacing an attitude as Michelson has adopted toward his critics...
...brand of curiosity greatly dismayed Secretary of Agriculture Wallace. To prepare such a list, he explained, would take much time, much money. Besides, the list might induce gangsters to invade the farm. He earnestly wondered if the farmer's daughter would then be safe. This thought did not appear so frightening to Senator Vandenberg. Snorted he: "If the farmer who made that $298.000 for not planting so many thousands of acres of cotton has a daughter, she must be a girl without a soul. That farmer was a corporation." Republican Chairman Henry Prather Fletcher chimed in: "It is unbecoming...
...still front rank box-office attractions. This phenomenal record has been made in the face of the fact that for ten years she has been playing, with superficial variations but no real exceptions, one role, that of Cinderella. The news that, loaned to MGM, she was to appear in a Ben Ames Williams story originally picked for Jean Harlow started hopes that Miss Gaynor's marathon might be about to end. Small Town Girl ends them...
Promoter Dickson's Boswell is ancient little Sparrow Robertson, sports columnist of the Paris Herald, in whose writings it is a 5-to-1 bet that Promoter Dickson's name will appear on any given day. Dickson's secretary is Count Nicolas Ignatieff, son of Prince Nicolas Ignatieff, who once commanded the Tsar's Imperial Guard. When they discovered each other, the Count was a taxi driver and Promoter Dickson was his first fare. Apologizing for his incompetence as a chauffeur, the Count admitted he could speak twelve languages and take shorthand dictation. Dickson ordered...