Word: de
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week, 10,000 40 & 8 voyageurs, with 100 locomotives drawing boxcars, cars that kept tipping over on their back wheels, members disguised as Indians, African savages and Scotsmen on skis, had a separate parade of their own, more disorderly than the main Legion parade. Two days later, as "Chef de Chemin de Fer," the 40 & 8 chose Fred Fraser, chief of the mail and records division of the Veterans' Administration in Washington...
Instructive but comparatively tame were the 18th and 19th-Century paintings which Director Plimpton and Stockholm's National Museum Curator Sixten Strömbom had included. Discreetly confined to historical art, the show stopped with such established fin de siècle cosmopolitans as Anders Zorn. Ernst Josephson, contained no work by such up-&-coming young Swedish painters as Ewald Dahlskog and Leander Engstr...
...sure-fire theme of The Admirable Crichton-the butler who turns out to be a better man than the rest of them-a competent cast headed by beautiful Vincent Price and lissome Elissa Landi amble through a pleasant play that occasionally skitters along the edge of being a tour de farce. Actor Price is the same restrained, terribly patient young man that he was as Albert in Victoria Regina...
...march on 1937's automobile shows which will open at the end of October, Manhattan's first big all-trailer show appeared last week in Manhattan's ugly old brownstone 71st Regiment Armory. Twenty-four trailers, from a one-wheel duck hunter's camp to de luxe three-wheelers with bath, were parked on the Armory floor; outside, too big to trundle through the Armory's great doors, stood a shingle-roofed, imitation brick house on wheels. For seven days at the rate of about 100 an hour some 10,000 trailer-minded people leisurely...
...meeting of the Philadelphia Regional Safety Conference, Liberty Leaguer Lammot du Pont, president of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., declared his conviction that traffic-regulating signs are dangerous because they tend to confuse drivers' minds. Publisher David Stern's pink Philadelphia Record editorialized: "The next time Mr. du Pont sponsors a political organization that is opposed to government regulation of the power industry, or the stock market, or the monetary system, remember that Mr. du Pont also is opposed to traffic lights...