Word: bea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...statement appeared next day on the front page of the New York Times, followed by dispatches describing 'reactions to it in Chicago, Boston, San Francisco and Maplewood, N. J., where a Catholic priest blamed shorts on the cinema. The New York Daily News quickly photographed a Miss Bea Gottlieb who last year won a round of golf from Edward of Wales, interviewed her on the terrace of the Westchester Embassy Club which is run by two onetime speak-easy proprietors. Said Bea Gottlieb, who sells securities and real estate when not golfing: "Shorts are the only sensible thing," added...
Chaster Kent James Cagney Nan Joan Blondell Bea Ruby Keeler Scotty Dick Powell Francis Frank McHugh Mr. Gould Guy Kibbee Vivian Claire Dodd...
Beatrice ("Bea") Gottlieb, trim Manhattan blonde from Tuckahoe, N.Y., arrived home and told the newspapers how she played golf with the Prince of Wales, beat him (TIME, Aug. 14). She "just happened" to be playing the same courses he was playing, several days in a row. One day he asked his private professional, towering Archie Compston, to arrange a match. Mrs. Alastair Mackintosh made it a foursome and they played three rounds on as many courses, Miss Gottlieb and Wales playing for a ball a hole. After halving two matches, she finally won with...
...Bea was the only child of hard-working parents in Atlantic City, who had to take in a boarder to make ends meet. To contemplate the long, hard road between Bea and her destined summit would dismay most authors, but not energetic Fannie Hurst, who loves nothing better than building up material careers in print. As a starter, Bea was persuaded to marry the middle-aged boarder. With her mother dead, her father helpless from a stroke, her husband (insufficiently insured) killed in a train wreck, a baby and no prospects, it might look to the reader as if Bea...
Starting with a maple-syrup agency and her husband's name, Bea managed to struggle along till she gathered in Delilah, a great black mammy with a beautiful disposition and a gift for cooking. The first B. Pullman waffle shop on the Board Walk was such a success that others followed. Bea, gradually discovering unsuspected executive talents, went on from hard-won struggles to easy victories, finally dotted half the U. S. with B. Pullmans. When she plunged into Manhattan real estate she emerged a millionairess. Meantime she was buying her only daughter social-educational advantages, often wishing...