Word: baileys
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Engineer Strauss & staff declare that the bridge could stand a 'quake twice as bad as the 1906 one, plus a hurricane, without harm. But there are others who claim differently. Chief of these is Dr. Bailey Willis, an 80-year-old Stanford geology professor with a handsome white beard. Two years ago a diver, working on the preliminary survey for the Bridge's great south pier 1,000 ft. from shore came up to declare that the rock was "as soft as plum pudding." Dr. Willis devoted months to proving that the rock on which the pier would...
...others will include: Mrs. Harry L. Bailey, Mrs. Gorham Brooks, Mrs. Henry Chauncey, Mrs. Edmund S. Childs, Mrs. George O. Clark, Mrs. James B. Conant, Mrs. Leslie B. Cutler, Mrs. Robert H. Fernald, Mrs. Edward W. Forbes, Mrs. Vinton Freedley, Mrs. Theodore Frothingham, Jr., Mrs. W. Perrin Fuller, Mrs. David H. Fulton, Mrs. William T. Gardiner, Mrs. John W. Hallowell, Mrs. A. Chester Hanford, Mrs. Thomas J. Healey, Mrs. F. Harvey Hilton, Mrs. Amor Hollingsworth, Mrs. James M. Hunnewell, Mrs. James L. Huntington, Mrs. Shaun Kelly, Mrs. Delmar Leighton...
...gave in, fumed in the Jim Crow car for four hours. When he reached his destination Congressman Mitchell said nothing of the incident and news of it did not leak out. Shortly after his arrival at Hot Springs he received a warm letter of welcome from Arkansas' Governor Bailey and letters from Little Rock's acting Mayor and Chamber of Commerce president, welcoming him to their city for a speech he was scheduled to make there after his stay at the spa. The facts that Chicago's Mitchell is the first Negro Democrat to sit in Congress...
Curtain Call (by LeRoy Bailey; Quigley-Schachtel Inc., producers) is interesting as a nearly perfect example of a bad play. In his stage-struck youth. Author Bailey joined the company of the illustrious Eleanora Duse in Pittsburgh, did odd jobs for nothing while he studied backstage life and listened to Duse's reminiscences. Curtain Call is a futile and impertinent attempt to stir the ashes of Duse's affair with Gabriele D' Annunzio. Feebly directed and stuffily acted by Ara Gerald and a supporting cast which includes Elaine Cordner, Selena Royle and Guido Nadzo, it achieved...
Competition from the new Cole Bros.-Clyde Beatty Circus (TIME, March 29) has caused the Big Show-the one & only Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus-to bestir itself to present this year a spectacle more exciting than ever. Young Si old who marched into Madison Square Garden last week to see the season's premiere emphatically agreed that the 1937 circus was truly, as advertised, bigger & better...