Word: beane
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Beck v. Versailles. Vastly different was the impact on the League of Nations last week of that stern, ramrod-backed bean pole in human form, Polish Foreign Minister Josef Beck. Only when the craze for yo-yo tops struck Warsaw two years ago was Colonel Beck seen really to unbend, pumping his yo-yo up & down on its string with pleased dexterity. In the past year the Colonel has been on dangerous ground and he trod it firmly last week...
...like the publican's: "Everyone should be a Jew for four weeks. As for me, two weeks would be enough." It contains its complement of minor characters: a simpleton, a schoolmaster. Klari's girlfriend. If it bad been transplanted, like Sidney Howard's The Late Christopher Bean, instead of merely translated, by Ruth Langner, its merits as a play might have been more apparent...
Studebaker's position is complicated by a receivership growing out of a legal snarl in its attempt to acquire White Motor (trucks). Reorganization plans are nearly complete. Meanwhile, the company has gained ground under the three able receivers, Harold S. Vance, Paul Gray Hoffman and Ashton G. Bean. When once again her own mistress, Studebaker could listen to honorable proposals...
...Chicago "Buzzie" and "Sistie" Ball, grandchildren of President Roosevelt, said good-by for two weeks to their mother, Mrs. Anna Roosevelt Dall. With a nurse and a secret service agent they went down a railroad platform to meet their father, Curtis Bean Dall. With "Popsie" they saw the World's Fair, ate double chocolate ice cream cones, got their hair cut. Said "Sistie": "I don't like braids. They fall in my soup...
Divorced. Anna Roosevelt Dall, daughter of President Roosevelt; from Curtis Bean Dall; in Minden, near Reno...