Word: babes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...education, is to retire at 70 this year from the secretaryship of the Presbyterian Board of Christian Education which he assumed a decade ago. When William Covert was born on an Indiana farm, his 93-year-old grandfather carried him to a window, peered through his spectacles at the babe and pronounced: "This is the minister we have been praying for.'' Ordained at 23, Covert asked a Minnesota missions superintendent for "the hardest field in the State," was assigned to an industrial suburb of St. Paul. He soon became the youngest synod moderator ever elected in Minnesota. Today...
Favorites to win the American League pennant were still the Washington Senators and the New York Yankees. Only change in the lineup that won the pennant for Washington last year was at right field, Jonathan Stone for old Goose Goslin. The Yankees had two rookie infielders. Babe Ruth planned, in what will doubtless be his last playing season, to make his 700th homerun, get his 2,000th base on balls. Manager Joe Cronin of Washington called Detroit the team to beat. Detroit's new Manager & Catcher Mickey Cochrane, bought for $100,000 from Philadelphia, was not so sure...
Robert Montgomery, as the escaped convict, Porter, boards a Los Angeles bound bus, a Greyhound bus, (note the advertising element that creeps into Hollywoodiana) and he immediately falls for the babe at his side. Letty is the girl's name, and she lets him know that she is avoiding Legs, a New York gangster. Legs glares at the couple, and Withington (Ted Healy) is trying to persuade a prim woman to take a drink, and Healey's stooges, the Julians, are raising hell in the back of the bus, and character actors fill the remaining seats. The bus is stopped...
...first municipal art show, sponsored by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. The artists selected their own exhibits, many of which were old to private gallery visitors. Prices were not openly quoted but sales people rustled lists running from $10 to a reported $25,000 for such pieces as Nakian's Babe Ruth, Zorach's Mother & Child...
...some of the most competent acting seen here this season. Miss Marjorie Peterson gives a performance to which nothing but the word delightful can be applied; in addition to being an extraordinarily capable actress, she is also what some of the boys would justly describe as a smooth babe. The rest of the cast maintain the high standard set by Miss Peterson; and to say this is to pay them no mean compliment. As always at the Plymouth the sets are excellent. Thora Donelle Marjorie Peterson Warren Pascal Brian Donlevy Catharine Pellett Helen Brooks Homer Pellett Louis Jean Heydt...