Word: childhoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fairy Britannia magically raising the emolument of the independently wealthy Stanley Baldwin (see cut). Intensely Canadian Lord Beaverbrook's London Evening Standard (which was pro-Edward and anti-Baldwin throughout the crisis) cartooned the Prime Minister with savage drollery as rolling about like a babe in his "Second Childhood...
...Elinor Glyn has not told everything. Locked away in her diaries, the "unvarnished truth" is still imprisoned. But in Romantic Adventure she has let out some, after giving it a ladylike shellacking. Born on the Island of Jersey of Scotch-Canadian parents, Elinor Glyn (nee Sutherland) spent her early childhood in Canada in an atmosphere of "aristocratic exclusiveness" which she admits was "already nearly a century out of date" but which stood her in good stead in her lifelong pursuit of Romance. Elinor's older sister (afterwards Lady Duff-Gordon) was considered the beauty of the family. Elinor herself...
...sewer gang foreman, James Petrillo, who likes to be called "The Mussolini of Music," was born in 1892 on Chicago's slummy West Side. He spent a precarious childhood selling newspapers, running elevators up & down Loop buildings, driving a horse & cart, peddling crackerjack and peanuts on a North West ern Railroad train. Young Petrillo played the trumpet, but so badly that the only jobs he could get were at picnics. On this account he went into politics. He served three years as vice president of the Chicago Federation of Musicians before he became its president in 1922. Highest-priced...
Much less enthusiastic about Batistism was President GÓmez who said bluntly, "The bill is antidemocratic, invades the scope of the civil authority, and tends to militarize childhood. I shall veto it." This made "The Savior" so angry that even when the National Sugar Mill Owners Association offered to pay the tax without any legislation, he waved their offer a.side, spluttered, "The bill must become...
...inspired silliness that is funny only because it is so uninhibited and because it goes on so tirelessly. In Laughing Gas, his plot involves a transfer of personality between the child star and the amiable, gorilla-faced Earl, with the result that the Earl romps around, paying off childhood scores, until he becomes known as the fiend of Hollywood, while the golden-haired child star takes to whiskey and soda and pays calls on cinema queens. But to speak of Wodehouse's plot is like speaking of the plot of a trapeze act, for his characters merely leap from...