Word: bigwig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jobs in a boardinghouse, as teacher, actress, journalist, press-agent (for the Panama-Pacific Exposition). Finally she divorced Husband Wallace. Mary found she liked the Southwest, wrote about it in "all kinds" of books. Though she never got to Easy Street she was soon a familiar figure on Bigwig Boulevard. Some of her friends: the late Poet Sterling, the late Jack London, Herbert Hoover, the late great Theodore Roosevelt, May Sinclair, George Bernard Shaw, the late Amy Lowell, Diego Rivera, Emma Goldman, Willa Gather...
...banquet in Washington, radio-broadcast to the nation, came 300 guests, as impressive an assemblage as might have gathered to honor the authentic, flesh-&-blood great: three Cabinet members, 31 Senators, 91 Representatives, five members of the Diplomatic Corps, three foreign ministers, many and many a bigwig of politics and business. Speeches were made by Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley and U. S. Senator George Higgins Moses...
...queer brain of Robert Louis Stevenson, sometimes politely sentimental, sometimes insanely, savagely gloomy? goes much as usual, with Hollywood variations. Mr. Hyde pursues a music hall girl (Miriam Hopkins) and brutally mistreats her while Dr. Jekyll makes intermittent and respectable love to the daughter (Rose Hobart) of a bigwig. Dr. Jekyll promises the music hall girl immunity from Mr. Hyde, then finds he can no longer regulate his horrid transformations. As Mr. Hyde, he goes to the trollop's rooms and kills her. Mr. Hyde has tried clubbing the father of Dr. Jekyll's fiancee and embracing the girl herself...
...Eighty-five men, no women, were White House banquet guests that night. In the State Dining Room, President Hoover was the big centre nail of the horseshoe table. On his right Premier Laval, left Ambassador Paul Claudel of France, nearby Marshal Pétain. A large assortment of bigwig publisher-editors included Arthur Brisbane, who wrote in his next Today: "Who sees only 'peasant ancestry' in the face of Laval would see only a peasant woman in the Mona Lisa face. . . . Don't play poker with him. . . . The President looked weary...
...Britain-boosting tour Edward of Wales used a Bell & Howell (U.S.) amateur movie camera. Back in London he invited numerous peers and bigwigs to view his films, projected them himself with a Bell & Howell projector. H. R. H. smokes U. S. cigarets, plays golf with Walter Hagen clubs, shows a marked dancing preference for U. S. young women, plays U. S. jazz on his saxophone, and as Empire Salesman "threw" for South American bigwig prospects at least one major salesman's drinking party of approved, standardized U. S. pattern, at Vina del Mar, Chile (TIME, March...