Word: connore
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...Chicago art dealer who first showed Frenchman Paul Chabas' September Morn (in 1913) was arrested. According to Police Sergeant Jeremiah O'Connor, the chilly nude in wading was "indacent and ought to be in the Art Institute." Instead, it wound up on calendars and candy boxes...
...first cross country track trial of the summer yesterday, Bill O'Connor paced a field of 11 long-distance men with a time of 10:06 for 1.9 miles...
...raising hob with the punctilio of three levels of snobbery-the aristocratic, the backstairs (Sara Allgood et al.) and, deadliest of all, the lower middle class. A tyrannical druggist (Richard Haydn) woos her with selections on the parlor organ; his phlegm-racked, fearsome little mother (Una O'Connor) believes her unworthy. Cluny's guardian angel throughout her tribulations is a prewar anti-Nazi refugee (Charles Boyer), who finds it equally impossible to persuade liberal English friends that he won't be assassinated at any moment, and to persuade tories that England has anything to fear from...
...whimsically dizzy heroine, who leaves her hoofprints in the ferns and her bloomers all over the place, was rather wearing for some readers of Margery Sharp's popular novel; but Jennifer Jones does her proud. Charles Boyer wastes his talents like a gentleman, and Una O'Connor, without a line to her name, is a howl...
...Toronto, the Workers' Educational Association of Canada (which sponsors night classes for workers) planned to build a house on a lot it owned on O'Connor Drive, then to raffle it off for profit. Then in the deed to the lot it discovered an ominous clause: ". . . not to be sold to Jews or persons of objectionable nationality." The Association went to court to have the clause annulled...