Word: brooked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Blue Necklace, a quietly florid and sexual portrait of a girl in a pink bodice, one shoulder strap fallen, brooding over a letter held in her open lap. Others: a sentimental painting of a young girl sewing by Frederick C. Frieseke. a vivid luminosity with figure by Alexander Brook, a nude by Guy Pène du Bois and a swirling composition called Stampeding Bulls by Jon Corbino...
...four weeks were spent deepen into the Green Mountains, under the slopes of Mount Mansfield, where facilities were available for artillery firing and the more practical side of field training. All hands agreed that the latter camp was the more enjoyable, placed as it was beside a cold mountain brook that had been dammed to make a swimming hole and, incidentally, a ducking pond for people who knocked more than a fair share of home runs in the inter-section soft ball league...
...young Northerner who taught Mary's class and who was seen coming out of the building after the crime. To District Attorney Griffin (Claude Rains), the principal is too big a personage and the janitor too small, to serve his purpose of a spectacular conviction. Reporter Bill Brook helps him pin the crime on Hale. The evidence consists principally of a blood spot on Hale's coat, which might have come from a barber's cut. More threatening is a hot surge of Southern hatred. When Hale's wife (Gloria Dickson) gets a Northern detective...
...angry crowd breaks into the baggage car where he is sitting with two detectives. Hale opens the door to jump, but looking up at him are the faces of the lynch mob. There is nothing much left of They Won't Forget after that except Reporter Brook's mildly rueful comment to District Attorney Griffin after Hale's widow has called them a pair of murderers: "Now that it's over, Andy, I wonder if he really...
Died. Howell Howard, 39, Dayton Ohio paper manufacturer and five-goal poloist; of a fractured skull and lacerations of the brain, caused when his pony fell during a Meadow Brook Club match between the Foxhunters and Narragansett, for whom Poloist Howard played No. 2; at Mineola...