Word: flor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lansing Allen, an assistant curator of paintings, put it together with sparkling good sense and humor. For each picture they provided background information, illuminating quotations, graceful homilies. In their observations on portraits of the late John D. Rockefeller (by John Singer Sargent) and J. P. Morgan (by Carlos Baca-Flor), they achieved a tone of perfect respect...
...framed it in magnificent scenery, let the two leads shift for themselves. Acting with considerable charm, and bursting frequently into song in the midst of Canadian wilds, Miss MacDonald and Mr. Eddy should provoke an even greater box-office triumph than by their first effort, Naughty Marietta. Marie de Flor (Jeanette MacDonald) is a pettish, kittenish opera singer whose scapegrace brother (James Stewart, see p. 28) has escaped from jail, murdered a pursuing officer. To bring him financial assistance, she treks toward his cabin in the woods. Cheated on the way by an Indian guide, she meets Canadian Mounted Police...
...uncle Arthur Hammerstein put in Luana last year before he went bankrupt (TIME, April 6); Vera Marsh of America's Sweetheart; pert Dancer Dorris Groday; Jeanette Loff. late of Hollywood (The King Of Jazz); Dorothy Knapp. a "Most Beautiful Woman In The World" for Earl Carroll and Flor- enz Ziegfeld; lovely Tamara (The Wunder...
...explainer was Representative Car roll L. Beedy of Maine, a consistent dry upon whose bald head Rear Admiral Frederick Chamberlayne Billard, the Coast Guard's commandant, had been looking down approvingly from the gallery as the Congressman praised the Admiral's service. Describing how the liquor-laden Flor del Mar had been towed into New London in a sinking condition, there to be hastily unloaded. Congressman Beedy said: "Those men-gobs as we call them- ordinary seamen, yet red-blooded American boys, stood in water for three hours on that cold December night unloading this liquor...
...London. At the Coast Guard base is stored some $500,000 worth of seized liquor. On the night of the Black Duck episode, the service brought in the Flor del Mar, loaded with liquor and in a sinking condition. Hastily she was unloaded, and soon her contraband cargo began to appear in New London speakeasies at $2 per bottle. Some Coast Guardsmen became drunk and rowdy. The base commander put a guard around his station, leveled destroyer searchlights upon it. Each guardsman "going ashore" was thoroughly searched at the gate to prevent liquor smuggling out of the base. The gate...