Word: excerpts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Excerpt: "Anderson & Forsythe are not Lindberghs, Balbos, Mollisons or Posts but they are heroes worthy of admiration and assistance. May their tribe increase...
...Mothers' Club of Baltimore's First Methodist Episcopal Church last week had their annual meeting in Lovely Lane Hall, had as their guest of honor Col. Louis McHenry Howe, President Roosevelt's personal friend and secretary, gave him a scroll acclaiming "The Finest Friendship in America." Excerpt: "Friendship is the fairest and sweetest flower that blooms in the garden of life...
...traveloger, was hired as the national barker to make nightly 15-min. talks over an NBC network. Daytimes Lecturer Holmes, also the Fair's cinematographer, watched a miniature Hollywood spring up where, through a glass partition, fairgoers will see real cinemas filmed & recorded on a 60-ft. stage. Excerpt from one of the Holmes Fair talks...
...same speaking program as Dean Virginia Gildersleeve of Barnard College, at a W. O. N. P. R. luncheon in Manhattan was Funnyman Jimmy ("Schnozzle") Durante, To make sure he "wouldn't say nuttin outa line," Durante had prepared his speech in advance. Excerpt: "I simply drove into the subject and when it comes to droving into a subject a Durante admits no peers. I'm not talkin' at this luncheon from hearsay or hunger, but because I was asked to talk. While drovin' and delvin' into de subject of Prohibition, I digs up plenty...
Lottie Perkins wrote a 30,000-word novel this time, The Missing Twin. Excerpt: "Mr. and Mrs. Jones left after they had told the Jameses what a wonderful time they had. As they got into their sedan Mrs. Jones said...