Word: charleses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last man to hold and deserve this emeritus distinction was Elihu Root, who was Secretary of War under McKinley and Roosevelt I, then the latter's Secretary of State and died (aged 91) in 1937. Now, as in no other period of U. S. history, there is a dearth...
Democrat John Nance Garner, Republican Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. ignored or declined invitations to sponsor her appearance. So did Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, presumably because he thinks Justices should shun partisan controversy. But Chief Justice & Mrs. Charles Evans Hughes accepted with pleasure, as did Associate Justice Hugo ("Klan") Black...
As cinematerial, Wuthering Heights might seem as farfetched a prospect as any book yet pillaged. It is crammed with neurotic, 19th-Century gloom, ridden with implications of incest, short on action, careless of conventional morality. As additional drawbacks, Mr. Olivier, entrusted with the crucial role of Heathcliff, boasts that he...
The Beachcomber (Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester; TIME, Jan. 2).
Manhattanites who wished to supplement Knoedler's nudes with something contemporary and three-dimensional could see distinction in both respects at the Buchholz Gallery. The exhibition was of bronzes by Charles Despiau, 65, a quiet, interminable workman who has gradually taken rank as one of the two or three...