Word: dodd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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PERSIAN CONQUEROR?George S. Hellman?Dodd, Mead ($2.50). Quaint, old-fashioned romance involving Cyrus, Leah and the simple trickery by which the Babylonians were undone...
...This caused the Mayor to brandish copies of official communications handed by U. S. Ambassador Dodd to the Hitler Government. In these there was an undeniable though vague insinuation that if Germany has been discriminating against U. S. holders of the Fatherland's bonds or so discriminates in future the Roosevelt Administration will be vexed...
...Wyoming, which is taking several hundred midshipmen around Europe with none too happy results.* Although admiring shipmates credited small Midshipman Wood with beating up the big Nazi, getting arrested and paying a $20 fine, the German Government officially informed U. S. Ambassador William E. Dodd that no such arrest occurred. Police along the Kurfürstendamm took little interest in the Jew hunt. When not in full cry after a Jew, zealous huntsmen, swinging paste pots, stuck up posters reading "The Jew is the cause of all our troubles!" covered the doors of what they took to be Jewish shops...
...least one film actress, Binnie Barnes, is credited with a larger shoe than Greta Garbo's ? 7½AA. A cursory survey of other foot sizes produces the following: Claire Dodd 7AAA, Helen Vinson 7AA, Joan Blondell 6C, Marion Davies 6B, Carole Lombard 5½A, Norma Shearer 5½A, Jean Harlow...
...second picture, "The Case of the Curious Bride," Warren William, Allen Jenkins, and Claire Dodd maintain the precedent set by "The Case of the Howling Dog." We refuse to commit ourselves as to what the precedent...