Word: brooding
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Career: Youngest of a farmer's brood of eight, George McGill was moved from Iowa to Kansas at the age of 4, hoed and harvested on his father's farm until he left to work his way through Central Normal College at Great Bend, Kans. and to study...
...Storekeeper Popham's girl, wears her button shoes on the wrong feet every other day to keep the heels from running over too much to the side; beau-aged Nancy and Kitty (Anne Shirley, Ruby Keeler) get in & out of sweetheart tangles without a scratch. Mothering this engaging brood is mature Actress Fay Bainter, probably the nearest cinema has to the Mother Carey Mrs. Wiggin had in mind. RKO had originally planned Mother Carey's Chickens for Actress Katharine Hepburn. Fortunately, Actress Hepburn refused the part. Result: Instead of pointing at the star, the camera manages to keep...
First of them to break away was the mask-faced zealot, Martha Graham, who left a lucrative job with the then-popular Ruth St. Denis company to brood and prance alone in a Manhattan studio. Results of this brooding, Graham's Manhattan concerts in 1926-29, were the first doses of modernist dance Manhattanites had ever taken. Soon, however, two other former Denishawn dancers, Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman, joined the procession. When famed German Modernist Dancer Mary Wigman visited the U. S. in 1930-31, the U. S. home-grown modernist dance had already taken root. But Wigman...
...glad Liverpool city council voted cash for prenatal nursing, the best obstetricians and, just in case the multiple birth were premature, a batch of incubators. That prevision proved essential when last month Mrs. Taylor did prematurely bear her brood. Liverpool residents put out flags, acclaimed "good old George Taylor...
...special train with him aboard was highballing out of Washington's Union Station. Once more Father Roosevelt was off to one of those family ceremonies which Roosevelts love. This time the event was Johnny's Day, the wedding-perhaps the last among Franklin Roosevelt's lively brood- of his youngest, John Aspinwall Roosevelt, 22, to Anne Lindsay Clark, 21, at Nahant, Mass...