Word: bankheads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tarnished Lady (Paramount). With a good or even an average piece of cinema tradegoods as her first vehicle, Tallulah Bankhead might have kept anyone from noticing the picture; but Tarnished Lady is so bad it keeps the audience from noticing Miss Bankhead. Her warm low-pitched voice and her pretty face and figure register well. There are even moments vhen, in spite of her terrific struggle with her material, it seems probable that she can act, though for proof the U. S. will have to wait for her next picture. Donald Ogden Stewart wrote this one, which seems...
Metropolitan--"Tarnished Lady" La Bankhead in the process of carving a niche for La Bankhead, with Clive Brook holding the chisel...
Judge Shackleford was for many years chairman of the Committee on Roads in the House, and is the author of the Shackleford-Bankhead Road Law-the really first big movement in the direction of the wonderful highways the country enjoys today...
...Bankhead-Shackleford bill (Federal Aid Road Act), basis for subsequent legislation of the kind, was approved July 11, 1916. It called for $75,000,000 in five annual installments, beginning with $5,000,000 for fiscal 1917 and increasing $5,000,000 each year, to be matched dollar-for-dollar by the States to build roads mutually agreed upon by the State highway departments and the Secretary of Agriculture. The total of Federal aid extended in fiscal 1917-30 inclusive: $915,000,000. Mileage designated: 193,652. Mileage completed...
Bitterly, passionately Alabama's Senator James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin harangued his colleagues last week on this theme: that the election last November at which he was defeated by John Hollis Bankhead was conducted with dishonesty...