Word: brightnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...confused with Radiopriest Charles Edward Coughlin of Detroit, John J. Coughlin is famed as much for his bright waistcoats, his huge paunch and his absurd poetry, as for his losing racehorses. A onetime rubber in a Turkish bath establishment, he saved his tips, opened a bathhouse of his own in 1890. First all-night establishment in the city, it prospered promptly, enabled Bathhouse John to get a grip on the Democratic vote of Chicago's First Ward which he has never lost. Huge, burly, white-haired, he keeps sacks of potatoes and bread to dole out to his constituents...
...which his daughter could take no part. A stream of big & little Republican wigs, including Oregon's Representative William Ekwall, Wyoming's Senator Robert Carey and National Finance Committee Chairman William B. Bell of Manhattan, stopped in to shake his hand, talk shop, tell him how bright his prospects looked...
Marked by the scrupulous accuracy in sets characteristic of current British productions and the over-dignified pace characteristic of less recent ones, I Stand Condemned is principally notable for its personnel. Its director was Anthony Asquith, bright young offspring of onetime Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith. Its heroine is Socialite Penelope Dudley-Ward. Its hero, the profiteer Brioukov, is Harry Baur, most famed cinemactor in France, making his English-speaking screen debut...
...they were, however, outnumbered, outpaced, out-dared and out-traveled by their American colleagues. The War, in a great degree, discovered Europe to American newspapers as a field for news. . . . The American newspaper men swarmed all over the still-ravaged territories of the European belligerents. . . . They came with their bright and cynical eyes, their calm, unworried faces, their tireless industry, their cool courage, their infinite capacity for drinks, jesting, poker and work, their insatiable curiosity, their generosity to a comrade, American or European, their professional pride, their calm assumption of equality with any king, president, statesman or newspaper reporter under...
...Travels in Two Democracies. For most of his long (412 pages) Two Worlds, Lester Cohen also adopts the tired tone of his predecessors, finding little to awaken his enthusiasm, much to depress him in his glimpses of poverty in many lands. Bright exception to his historic pessimism is his excitement about the Soviet Union...