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Word: beane (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years to build the zoo, cost Illinois taxpayers some $3,000,000. The late Edith Rockefeller McCormick gave much of the land. When most of the buildings were finished last year, the Society's President John Tinney McCutcheon, famed Chicago Tribune cartoonist, and Zoo Director Edwin Howard Bean started looking for something to put in them. The Society had decided to pay for the animals itself. George Getz. new treasurer of the Republican National Committee, helped out by making a gift of his menagerie, worth $60,000. The U. S. Department of the Interior sent three grizzly bears. Wheat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: New Zoo | 7/2/1934 | See Source »

...winter of 1932-33 newshawks covering the President-elect first noted the formal relations between his daughter Anna and her husband, big, bald-browed Curtis Bean Dall. At the inauguration, Son-in-Law Dall put in a polite appearance, later visited the White House for a birthday party. Then the wiseacres of the Press had a surprise: not Daughter Anna but 22-year-old Son Elliott turned up in Nevada asking a divorce. Last week the Press finally got the news it had long expected. Mrs. Dall with Sistie and Buzzie slipped quietly out of the White House where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Divorce No. 2 | 6/25/1934 | See Source »

Marriage Revealed. Dorothy Rothschild Parker, 40, poetess, wit; and Alan Campbell, 26, actor; in Westbury, L. I.; in October. Seeking Divorce. Anna Roosevelt Dall, daughter of President Roosevelt; from Curtis Bean Dall; in Reno (see p. 9). Seeking Divorce. Charlotte Charlton Leonard; from University of Wisconsin Professor William Ellery Leonard, 58, poet, author (Two Lives, The Locomotive God); in Madison, Wis. Died. Charles ("Chuck") Gardiner, 29, star goaltender for the Chicago Black Hawks hockey team, three times winner of the Georges Vezina trophy for the leading goaltender of the National League; of a tumor of the brain; in Winnipeg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 25, 1934 | 6/25/1934 | See Source »

...playwrighting begins with Eugene O'Neill. Bunched close together below him are Philip Barry, Maxwell Anderson and Sidney Howard. Like them, Howard does not write a hit at every sitting. Since They Knew What They Wanted, only three (Alien Corn, The Silver Cord, The Late Christopher Bean} of his ten plays have been financially successful. Unlike O'Neill, Anderson or Barry, Playwright Howard is not above working in Hollywood, where he has never written a failure. His adaptation of Bulldog Drummond for Producer Samuel Goldwyn in 1929 made Ronald Colman an important star. His adaptation of Arrowsmith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATRE: New Play in Manhattan: Mar. 19, 1934 | 3/19/1934 | See Source »

...Mexican products, which provide him with all he needs, a peso has the buying power of a pre-inflation dollar. Oranges cost three centavos (less than one penny). Avocado pears cost the same. The staples, black beans and pink rice, cost usually 20 centavos a kilo, which is more than two pounds. That's 2½? a pound. And if you've eaten black bean paste with chili sauce and Mexican pink rice, you know you don't have to feel sorry for anyone who makes it his daily fare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 26, 1934 | 2/26/1934 | See Source »

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