Word: arrow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shot the arrow that killed the cock-robin strike of Actors' Equity in Hollywood? "I" admits Actress Ethel Barrymore. "Ethel Barrymore!" cries President Frank Gillmore of Equity. The evening after President Gillmore's meeting at which Equity members in Hollywood adopted a resolution requiring cinema producers to employ casts at least 80% Equity (TIME, Aug. 19), Miss Barrymore denounced Mr. Gillmore's tactics as "futile" and left town. Tickled, the producers sat tight. Vexed, President Gillmore called off the strike, left for New York, flayed Actress Barrymore more for speaking out of turn "during the heat...
...From the northlands, southlands, eastlands and westlands you came at the call of my horn! I have buried this golden hatchet, the emblem of war, enmity and bad feeling. From now on the Scout symbol of peace is a golden arrow. I send you back to your homelands as ambassadors of peace...
...thought Mr. Mason deserved to be better known than he is, and while his plot may seem "silly" when put into the cinema, his book, although written for a less sophisticated decade, would perhaps find more favor with you. Present day readers might appreciate more his House of the Arrow, which I consider one of the best mystery stories ever written. ANITA CIFRE...
...when King Albert of Belgium visited Toledo as guest of Brand Whitlock, a fleet of Willys-Knights received the royal party. When a newsman in an Oldsmobile attempted to tag along with the procession, a policeman forced him to the curb. Ever since 1900 when, as Fierce-Arrow sales-agent he wore out his first Fierce-Arrow demonstrating it, he has been "good copy" in automotive news...
...Washington, Mrs. Hoover's town car is a Fierce-Arrow, newly acquired, omitted from TIME'S list of motors used by First Families (TIME, May 6). Two other Fierce-Arrows stand in the White House garage, for the Secret Service...