Word: brotherly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...genius merely sneers at him, pelts him with insults. But besides playing David to the producer's Goliath, the genius plays Fairy Prince to a fetching young extra, Big Brother to a worshipful messenger boy, and is killed off for just long enough to be mourned and extolled. Then he comes to life again. He was not killed after...
Lost Wail. Leros in ancient days was the place where the daughters of Oeneus, turned into guinea hens, wailed for their brother Meleager. Last week the wailing was loudest in London. There were un official suggestions that General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson of the Mid-East Command ought to be replaced. The General did his duty, gave an explanation which left the blame...
Miss Durbin portrays a young middle-western lady with an ambitious voice. She wants nothing so much as a chance to display it before Hit-Composer Franchot Tone. Her surprise and delight may be imagined when she discovers that her brother (Pat O'Brien) is the boozy butler of Composer Tone's Park Avenue penthouse. But it is Butler O'Brien's special business to keep thrushes out of this quiet nest, and for several reels Miss Durbin, though she crowbars her way into a maid's job there, has to content herself with charming...
Nine Lives in One. Rabbi Mann could hardly do more with nine lives than he has with one. He has been active in the Big Brother and Big Sister movements ("There are no delinquent children, only delinquent parents"). He pioneered with Margaret Sanger in the American Birth Control League long before such participation was respectable. He is a director of the National Crime Prevention Institute. Ex-President Hoover appointed him a member of the White House Conference on Child Health and Protection. Secretary Harold Ickes put him on the Housing Commission. He is a regional arbitrator on the National...
...Brazilian bonds she had bought for $3,600 were now worth $313.64. She owed two quarters payment on the principal, plus $150 and interest: at least $750. She talked stiffly to the banker, whose bank had recently passed quietly into the hands of a Boston firm, to her new brother-in-law, who had spent more than he could afford on his honeymoon and whose factory now employed 126 people where it had employed 432 in good times. Then she gave up, sold the house furnishings for $383, packed her trunk and moved in with Helen and George...