Word: choses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Even after the votes were in, tellers withheld the count 15 min. to give Boss Curry a chance to resign. But over his friends' protests, John Curry chose to become the first Leader voted out of office in Tammany history. Dazed, the old man looked from face to face about him. "I am at a loss to know why some of you voted against me. . . . Didn't I call you up Monday to tell you I was making you a Sachem. . . . Why, only 15 minutes of 5 today I did a favor for you. ... I hope you have...
Shirley Temple is the daughter of a branch manager of California Bank in Santa Monica. Associate Producer Lew Brown, who discovered Jackie Cooper, chose her for Stand Up and Cheer from a group of 200 child actresses who answered a general call. She had already learned to sing by imitating radio crooners. She learned most of her tap-dancing in three weeks on the Fox lot. Blonde and pretty, Shirley Temple signed her own contract with...
...three older brothers had gone respectively to West Point, Annapolis and Princeton. Bob Michelet chose vigorous, informal, outdoor Dartmouth. Even there his clean-limbed 6 ft. 1 in. and 185 Ib. caught passing eyes. Elected captain, he led the freshman football team through a hard season undefeated. In the spring he was elected president of his class, received the William S. Churchill Prize as its outstanding member...
When senior year came last autumn his world outdid itself to honor him. The faculty which had already made him a Senior Fellow, gave him a Phi Beta Kappa key. Sportswriters named him on All-Eastern football teams. Varsity swimmers and trackmen chose him captain. His Psi Upsilon fraternity brothers made him their president. His classmates, who had already elected him their president, put him in the presidency of their honor society, Casque & Gauntlet. Dartmouth at large chose him to head the student governing body. When he went up before a Rhodes Scholarship committee last autumn, it saw at once...
Fundamentalists and send out Fundamentalist missionaries to preach God's own Fundamentals to black, brown and yellow men in far corners of the earth. In Philadelphia last October they set up the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions. And for its general secretary and most active worker they chose no grizzled Presbyterian die-hard but a keen, quick-smiling young missionary named Charles J. Woodbridge...