Word: autographer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tried to outsmart the President at a recent Press Club dinner. On the back of a menu they wrote: "I hereby nominate Herbert Bratter [a Washington writer] as Ambassador to the North Pole." Folding the menu so that these words were hidden, they passed it to the President to autograph. When the menu was returned, they discovered that the President had unfolded it, struck out "North," inserted "South," added: "(North Pole already occupied...
...None of us has ever requested an autograph. Very truly yours, James Higginson '38, Jeffrey Fuller '38, George Frazier '33, Edward Barnes...
...referred to himself as the "Dean Emeritus of Inconsistency," said to reporters: "If any President so far forgot himself as to appoint me to the Supreme Court, I would never take my place on the bench-because I would die of surprise." Next day the phonographic Senator told an autograph-beggar to write to his office. "I'll not only send you my autograph," said he, "but the greatest thing for insomnia you ever had-a set of my speeches...
Between frequent pauses to autograph copies of his latest work, "The Book of Marvels", in a meek off the crowded main floor of Jordan Marsh's Halliburton amplified his statement. "You don't have to be so crazy you throw things. But I don't even drink. Perhaps it's a result of my four years at Princeton...
...Film Tsar Luigi Freddi entertained him at his home, where no Hollywoodman has been before. Princess Jane San Faustino (née Jane Campbell of Manhattan) introduced him to Crown Prince Umberto at a smart midnight party. Admirers brought him gifts-art objects, rare books, an Eleonora Duse autograph. Naive-looking, bespectacled Mamoulian finally fled, dazzled, to restful Capri...