Word: asterism
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Emmanuel d'Aster de la Vigerie, Interior Commissioner, spoke openly of U.S. and British fears that arming France would lead to uncontrollable revolution...
British Broadcasting Corp. announced that on Lord & Lady Aster's estate, Cliveden in Buckinghamshire (headquarters of the much publicized "Cliveden Set"), a 600-bed hospital was being built to accommodate Canadians wounded in the war which all the Cliveden set's appeasement did not prevent...
City editor of the New York Herald Tribune for seven sparkling years, author of a rapid-fire book of reminiscences called Mrs. Aster's Horse, frequent contributor to The New Yorker, Stanley Walker was a name to make any publisher's cheeks glow with satisfaction...
Author Booth Tarkington, an art lover although partially blind for several years, purchased three "old masters" to add to his collection in Kennebunkport, Me.; Sibylla Of Tibur Before Emperor Augustus, by Jan de Beer; Portrait of an Author, by Jacopo Pontormo; Menaud d'Aure, Viscount d' Aster, by an anonymous 16th Century Frenchman. Simultaneously, he finished a novel on connoisseurs and art dealers...
There is very little acting except saying of lines and screaming. That one can forgive. But inasmuch as every third scene or so is comic relief, it is a little disappointing to find no comedy. Besides Ricardo Cortez and Mary Aster, there is a new girl in the picture named Kay Linaker. We wish that we could be as confident as Warner Brothers that she is "destined for stardom shortly...