Word: em
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hearstpapers editorialed: "But why necessarily an American? Ramsay MacDonald, Mussolini, Premier Yenizelos, the almost-Emperor Henry Pu Yi, Mr. Litvinov of the Soviets, King Zog, the King of Siam and the Maharaja of Mysore wear 'em. Horn-rimmed glasses have become international. They are still the best first-aid to those desirous of that intellectual look. The real ultra-highbrows, of course, cling severely to a pince-nez with black ribbons...
...Robert Pierce ("Bob") Shuler, Prohibition nominee for the Senate against Republican Tallant Tubbs and Democrat William Gibbs McAdoo bought three sacks of onions for 90? in San Joaquin Valley. Said he to the onion farmer: "I'm going to take these sacks of onions to Washington, eat 'em every day and blow my breath all over the Senators until they pass laws to allow the growers to make money." Nominee McAdoo's theme song: "Send me to Washington. I'll guarantee I won't need someone to show me the ropes." Nominee Tubbs took...
University-"Bring 'em Back Alive." An excellent jungle picture with all the African noises made in a New York studio. Also "Crooner," Laurel and Hardy feature...
...After two sweet months with Damaris he rode off with his comrades to their gay cavalier war. One authentic incident of Sumters bloodless siege which Author Heyward has dug up may be news even to some Charlestonians. One Louis Tresvant Wigfall. ex-Senator from Texas, had offered his em barrassingly fire-eating services to General Beauregard, had been assigned to a battery on James Island. At the height of the bombardment Col. Wigfall commandeered a skiff and two Negroes, ordered them to row him to Fort Sumter. "He was wearing his red sash, his huge Texas spurs, and at regular...
...Hold em Jail," the companion picture, is another of Wheeler and Woolsey's uproarious, inane vehicles, in which the two protagonists get railroaded into jail and proceed to win the football game in an inter-prison league. Stadium tactics are hardly in order when our two heroes let loose their bag of tricks, not the least among which are a chloroform-soaked handkerchief and a boomerang pigskin...