Word: chandlerisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...impersonated by big-eyed, golden-haired Actress Helen Chandler, Angela Shale is a young woman who looks like an angel out of Heaven, but generally acts like the most mischievous little shrew who ever sat on a ducking stool. By tears, coquetry, wheedling, imprecations, she is bound and determined to make her husband sell his electrical invention to the power trust, accept a steady job and settle down in an all-electric house in the suburbs. Alternately dazzled by his wife's charm and enraged by her breezy feminine sophistry, Dick Shale (Bramwell Fletcher) is equally determined to exploit...
Somewhere between playing the little prince to John Barrymore's Richard III and her outstanding comic success in Springtime for Henry, Helen Chandler managed to make herself one of the U. S. Stage's more attractive and plausible ingenues...
...successful steamships before Robert Fulton; Songwriter Stephen Collins Foster ("Nelly Was a Lady"); Inventor Charles Goodyear (vulcanization of rubber); Mrs. Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, editor of Godey's Lady's Book, sponsor of Thanksgiving Day as a national holiday, poet ("Mary Had a Little Lamb") ; Author Joel Chandler Harris (Uncle Remus Stories); Colonel Robert Green Ingersoll, agnostic lawyer, lecturer, debater; Explorer Elisha Kent Kane, who pioneered part of Peary's route to the North Pole; Composer Edward Alexander MacDowell ("To a Wild Rose"); Inventor Robert McCormick (harvester); Novelist Herman Melville (Moby Dick); Abolitionist Lucretia Coffin Mott; Commodore...
...trying to make political capital out of a major division of public opinion on New Deal policy by showing himself 1) "liberal" in that he accepted the 59? dollar as an accomplished fact and 2) "sound" by advocating resumption of specie payments. When newshawks caught up with him at Chandler, Ariz., Mr. Hoover gave his own reason for his act: "I felt it was my duty...
...summary: HARVARD '38 B. U. '38 Weeks, Nesmith, Carstein, l.w. r.w., Fohlin, Hausen Roberts, Mechem, Sleeper, c. c., Kelley, Woodward Cutter, Pope, Emerson, r.w. l.w., Hickey, Corvelli Hicks, Russell, l.d. r.d., Chandler, Powell Allen, Eaton, r.d. l.d., Freeman, Hoar Watson, g. g., Hines...