Word: carey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...East 45th Street. They were proud that Brearley had attracted the daughters of Cleveland H. Dodge, Herbert L. Satterlee, Oswald Garrison Villard, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Felix M. Warburg, Owen D. Young. They were proud that Brearley had schooled such distinguished personages as Dean Virginia Gildersleeve of Barnard, Mrs. Charles Carey Rumsey, Sculptress Malvina Hoffman, Actresses Michael Strange and Hope Williams, Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney...
Last month Captain Robert E. Carey of the Dollar liner President Cleveland was charged with adding to the death toll in the Morro Castle disaster by his delay and incompetence. Last week the two ship's officers who made the charge were removed from his command. Chances were they would be dismissed by the company, which exonerated Captain Carey on his past record...
Four of the Cleveland's ranking officers made off for the Manhattan investigation when they got ashore to report that lives had been lost because of Captain Robert E. Carey's incompetence and delay. They also petitioned the line to be removed from his command. Sailing back to San Francisco, the line's headquarters, Captain Carey observed: "I took it on the chin here in New York, but they'll get theirs in 'Frisco...
Riffling through the papers in his hotel-room, General Johnson snorted with disgust when his eye fell upon a cartoon by Carey Orr on the Tribune's front page. It depicted a huge Brain Truster brandishing over a minute mother and two children the bludgeon of NRA PROHIBITIONS (see cut). Caption: "New York:?Mrs. Katherine Budd, a mother with two children to support, was informed that President Roosevelt had turned down her plea for permission to work in her home making artificial flowers because 'THE PURPOSES OF THE NRA CODE WOULD BE DEFEATED...
Director John Cromwell's version of Maugham's novel starts when Philip Carey (Leslie Howard) learns in Pans that he is a mediocre painter, makes up his mind to study medicine in London. Near the end of the picture Carey under goes an operation which cures his clubfoot. Director Cromwell and Lester Cohen, who adapted the story, took the intelligent course of deviating as little as possible from Somerset Maugham's narrative. Therefore the most memorable and important part of Of Human Bondage remains Philip's attachment for Mildred Rogers (Bette Davis), the waitress who turns...