Word: contacte
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Irene wins a scavenger hunt by successfully retrieving a "forgotten man" from the city dumps, she keeps him on as butler because Godfrey (William Powell) represents the outstanding achievement of her frivolous life. Godfrey, ready for renewed contact with a world in which his previous life came to disaster, wants to see if destitution has disciplined him for soft high life. Morrie Ryskind and Eric Hatch have peopled Irene's world with the most completely realistic set of rich crazy people seen on the screen for some time. Butler Godfrey shows the babbling Mrs. Bullock...
...meeting with visions of posed photographs and a worthwhile national story. Governor Wilson was timid about the proprieties of it, but allowed himself to be persuaded to accept an invitation from the President. If memory serves me correctly Billy Swan (yachting stories) then of the Associated Press made the contact with the President's party. Result: A cordial invitation from the genial Taft to the man who within a month was to unseat...
...Harllee, retired Marine (TIME, Aug. 24). Jimmy Byrnes squeaked into the Senate in 1930 with 120,000 primary votes to 116,000 for Coleman Livingston Blease. Last week, with 250,000 votes to 37,000 for his two anti-New Deal opponents combined, the President's Senate contact man piled up the biggest majority South Carolina had ever given a State-wide candidate...
...Contact lenses (TIME, Aug. 18, 1930) are thin glass shells which are fitted directly onto the eyeball, are almost invisible when in place. They are inconspicuous for actors and other vain persons, convenient for athletes. Since the curvature of the eye varies from one individual to another, a lucky fit is necessary for contact lenses to be worn for long periods without irritation. Hence although they have been known for 80 years, only about 3,000 have been successfully worn. For six years Dr. William Feinbloom, research fellow of Columbia University, labored on the problem of a lens made...
Last week the South Army of the Revolution under General Franco and the North Army under General Mola advanced until their forces finally made contact with each other for the first time since the war began, near Merida on their west fronts...