Word: flours
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other country do portraitists flour ish as in England. This has been true ever since the German Holbein and later the Flemish Van Dyke came to make their everlasting fame & fortune at the British court. Richly represented was the capable if uninspired work of British official portraitists. Among the best was Gerald F. Kelly's picture of the late famed Provost of Eton and writer of immortal ghost stories, Montague Rhodes ("Monty") James...
Married. General Douglas MacArthur, 57, onetime (1930-35) U. S. Chief of Staff, now Field Marshal of the Philippine Commonwealth: and Jean Marie Faircloth, 38, of Murfreesboro, Tenn., daughter of a Nashville flour miller, whom he met in Manila in 1935; in Manhattan's City Hall. His first wife, who divorced him in 1929, was Louise Cromwell Brooks, stepdaughter of Financier Edward Townsend Stotesbury, now wed to Actor Lionel Atwill...
...which the Chancellor of the Exchequer "opens" his Budget in the House of Commons, because ever since 1917 Britons, great and small, though ruled for the most part by Conservatives, have paid out staggering income taxes. Outstanding British taxpayers like Lord Leverhulme (soap), Lord Wakefield (oil), Joseph Rank (flour & shipping) and Lord Nuffield (motors) are relieved of as much as 66% of their incomes by the Government, and it was these who faced the 1937 Budget with most fear and trembling...
...Immingham Dock, Humber River, in the north of England, the little freighter Backworth last week loaded $10,000 worth of sugar, flour, fruit and dried salt fish for starving Basques in Spain's besieged Bilbao. More than one-tenth of the cargo was paid for by David Lloyd George who seldom misses a chance to make political capital of anything. Down to the dock hurried Britain's Wartime Prime Minister to wring Captain Russell of the Backworth by the hand...
Like a swallow chasing flies, he flitted through the sky, a trail of flour tracing his arabesques against the blue. Finally, only 1,000 ft. above the field, he pulled the ripcord of his parachute. It failed to open...