Word: dianas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Behind the Headlines (RKO). Reporters who had to compete with Newsflash Broadcaster Eddy Haines (Lee Tracy) agreed that if they threw him out of the window he would scoop them by broadcasting the news all the way to the ground. Mary Bradley (Diana Gibson), the Star's sobsister, had been engaged to him until he sent her to pick out a ring while he beat her to the story of a round-the-world flight. In her opinion he was such an "utter cockroach" that she hired thugs to bar him from a dance hall fire, news of which...
Museum of the City of New York, most important civic museum in the U.S., has most elaborately displayed everything from wax figures of Peter Minuit to Boss Tweed's fire engine with the original Tammany tiger, Saint-Gaudens' preliminary study for the Diana of Madison Square Garden...
...young girl chasing a deer she was forced to cross the river where lived the river-god Alpheus. And, you remember the story, Alpheus was so attracted by her beauty that he embraced his cool waters about her and would have captured her, had it not been for Diana who heard Arethusa's cries and to save her caused a subterranean passage to be formed and the lovely maid to emerge as a Spring...
...from him. When that happened, he went off hoping for death at the first cannon's mouth. Long before he got into his first battle he learned that there was more to soldiering than stopping a bullet. A Creole camp-follower in Nashville did her share in dimming Diana's image. And in his first skirimish Robert found there were too many things happening to think about glorious death. The first sight of a Confederate charge was too much for Robert and his pals; they ran like stags. And there was nothing glorious in being wounded: he thought...
...peculiar ceremony, in the time of the English king Henry VIII, the marriage party of a nobleman walked in a bizarre parade headed by representations of the ancient gods Diana and Mercury, and by ten cupids, five of them white and five negro...