Word: colliers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with 1) a maiden pure of heart (Renee Ray), 2) a fancy lady (Ruth Chatterton), and 3) a predatory stuffed shirt (Hugh Miller) leave Montmartre's half-world a better place to live in. The Rat was originally (1924) a pot-boiled play by England's Constance Collier and Ivor (Keep the Home Fires Burning) Novello. On the screen it is still the same lukewarm dish...
Describing President Conant as something new in his experience of Americans, "something fresh, clean, frank, and simple," H. G. Wells in the current issue of "Collier's" says that everything points to the "distinguished chemist" as presidential material...
...under no circumstances, by formal prearrangement. The Post occasionally subsidizes a favorite author by buying a poor story and never printing it, but unlike Collier's and Liberty it maintains no stable. However, when the editors and a veteran writer talk over and agree on a piece, it is rare that it is not accepted...
...debts of his new St. Patrick's Church. Father Cox, who in 1935 charged people 25? apiece to see a "miraculous" image of Christ formed in soot on a chimney which he had transported to Pittsburgh from a coal miner's shack in Collier, Pa., lately thought up and copyrighted a "Garden Stakes" contest, with cash prizes...
Aboard the Panay, Messrs. Mayell and Alley joined 14 other civilians fleeing upriver, among them six journalists: Weldon James, United Press Nanking chief; G. M. McDonald of the London Times; Norman Soong of the New York Times; Luigi Barzina and Sandro Sandri, Italian correspondents; James Marshall, Collier's staff writer. Within 24 hours these eight newsmen had ringside seats at what may still become this century's Maine affair, when Japanese airplanes and machine guns from launches bombed, strafed and sank the Panay 25 miles upriver from Nanking...