Word: bus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wife of learned Hispanophile Archer Milton Huntington, son of oldtime Railroad Promoter Collis Potter Huntington. Always shy of publicity, Sculptress Huntington worked first with Sculptors Gutzon Borglum and H. A. McNeil. She has always been an animal sculptor by choice, but three human subjects have also occupied her. Every bus rider on Manhattan's Riverside Drive knows Mrs. Huntington's equestrian statue of Joan of Arc. There are other Huntington Joans in Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine; at Gloucester, Mass.; San Francisco and Blois, France. Dianas Mrs. Huntington has left in Cambridge Mass.; Austin...
...headlines. In the past five years alone China has built a greater mileage of roads than in the previous 3,000 years. Motor trucks and buses now snort over a Chinese countryside in which the peasants are still too poor to buy even kerosene for their lamps, much less bus tickets. The buses are mainly for Chiang's soldiers and the trucks to rush food and supplies enabling the Government to nip floods and famines which have cursed China down the centuries. In times past Chinese have died not by the thousands but by the hundreds of thousands simply...
...three with oldsters. One tells of a little girl sitting in a closet thinking of the death of her baby brother. In another a schoolboy becomes uncomfortably aware of his mother's jealousy of his teacher. One tells the story of a Negro porter on a cross-country bus, another the troubles of two young mechanics whose garage business is threatened by the arrival of a blonde...
Walter Connolly is excellent as "Million-Dollar-Wolf" Craig alternately roaring at and soothing his spoiled daughter, Belinda, played by Mary Taylor, looking even more charming than she does on the pages of "VOGUE." John Harvard presents a sensitive young idealist as Bus" Jones, the college communist. The best performance is that of Lionel stander, who will be remembered for his work in another Hecht and MacArthur film, "The Scoundrel." He fills the role of Muglia, Belinda's kidnapper, who can carry Lenin and Stalin in his coat pocket, and still have room for Karl Marx; the scene in which...
Although only two made the trip on the specially provided bus, seven other student Republicans are known to have taken the party's free trip to New York for registration purposes Saturday...