Word: duringer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sir Earle Page, leader of the Country Party, Acting Prime Minister since Joe Lyons' death, had promised to carry on until a new Ministry was formed, possibly hoping that he might form it. But Sir Earle resigned in a huff and delivered one of the bitterest speeches Australian politics...
Married. Tyrone Power Jr., 24, sleek cinemacting scion of an Anglo-Irish stage family; and Annabella, 26-year-old French cinemactress (real name: Suzanne Georgette Charpentier) ; in Hollywood. Daughter of a Paris publisher, blonde, pert Annabella got her cinema name and fame as a protégéé of...
† Killed (1934) during a foxhunt.
> In the U. S. by 1938 there were 5,000,000 radio-equipped automobiles. The three main arguments against auto-radios are that they divert the driver's attention from the road, prevent him from hearing warning signals, preoccupy him with tuning manipulation. But four counterarguments for auto-radios...
Annually St. Mary's was pontifically visited by a Canadian high churchman, Bishop Rocksborough R. Smith of Algoma, Ont., who wore red slippers and episcopal gloves, presided at long and ceremonious services worked up from Fortescue.* A story became current in the Episcopal Church: that New York's...