Word: bankhead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tallulah Bankhead went to the hospital with flu the night she opened in a new Clifford Odets show, Clash by Night, in Philadelphia. She was pronounced "much better" after a day in an oxygen tent...
...Pettengill, former Indiana Congressman and a rabid Roosevelt-hater, took over Wheeler's office as headquarters for a lobby against the impending Neutrality amendments. (The last private citizen who invaded a Congressional office to bore at legislation from within was John L. Lewis: he moved into Speaker Bankhead's office during a fight on amendments on the Walsh-Healey Act. When Congressmen found out about it, they raised the roof. If anyone has tried it since, he has kept it dark.) First plan had been to hold a big lunch in the House restaurant. But most isolationist Congressmen...
Bette Davis is no Tallulah Bankhead as the lead-villainess, "Regina Giddons," probably because it's impossible to play essentially the same role in a dozen movies without some decline of conviction and zest. The supporting parts are superbly rendered, many by members of the original Broadway company. Herbert Marshall is, for once, not miscast, and performs admirably as the tragic dying husband and prey of "Regina" and her brother-vultures...
From the same punch-bowl that has refreshed celebrities from Anna Held to Tallulah Bankhead, the editors of Mother Advocate will serve a new arsenic-laden punch to the leading murderesses and their accomplices in "Arsenic and Old Lace" at 4 o'clock this Friday in the Bow Street Sanctum. Guests who prefer elderberry wine must bring their...
...Utopia is always somewhere else. The farmers want more. In Washington, Alabama's Senator John Hollis Bankhead advised farmers to keep their cottonseed off the market until prices hit $60 a ton (last week's price: about $47, an 18-year high). Wheat farmers have withheld so much (about 40%) of this year's bumper 950,000,000 bushel crop that the conservative Bureau of Agricultural Economics last week turned tipster, predicted wheat would jump another icxf; a bushel within a few months. It now figures 1941 U.S. cash farm income...