Word: fond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Actress Bergner first spoke English and in which she took critical London by storm last year. To promote her Manhattan debut, Producer Cochran and the Theatre Guild had dragged out every threadbare cliche known to theatrical ballyhoo. Actress Bergner was billed as a shy recluse, inordinately modest, simple, unaffected, fond of Wiener Schnitzel and dogs. "She works harder than any other member of the company," said one account. "She is the first to arrive at the theatre, and she spends an hour on her make-up alone." Press releases had declared that the English now set her above Ellen Terry...
...remarry? According to the playwrighting Stuarts, it depends on the character of the child. When Jennifer Lawrence (Peggy Wood) agrees to marry Sir John Corbett (Louis Calhern). her younger daughter. Baba. is thoroughly pleased. Baba (11-year-old Jeanne Dante, in her third play) is a pudgy little hedonist, fond of chocolates and a general good time. Sir John wins her affection easily with a theatre party and promises to teach her to play golf, sail a boat, ride a pony...
...Cabinet news was just one name: CANABAL. Handsome as the Hollywood villain of Mexican cinema, His Excellency Tomas Garrido Canabal has been the terror of Catholics as Governor of the State of Tabasco. "What is God?", Canabal is fond of sneering. "Nobody can tell me, but God has cost Mexico billions! We are going to stop that waste...
...University of Leipzig when the War called him to the Russian front. Settled in Vienna after the Armistice, he has lived there quietly ever since, proclaiming in poems, essays, plays and novels his tragic philosophy: the brotherhood of man. Great frequenter of cafés, he is fond of lapsing into Oriental calm, seeking inspiration while in that state. Beethoven-locked, corpulent, 44, Author Werfel is known in Austria primarily as a poet. Some of his U. S.-translated novels: Verdi, The Man Who Conquered Death, Class Reunion...
...garrulous stunter, Dr. Brock is reticent, conservative, not fond of publicity. Wealthy at 45, he pooh-poohs the suggestion that he has demonstrated the safety & dependability of aviation, likes to say: "I've done it because I get a kick out of it. I just got in the habit of flying every day and I haven't quit. When I get tired of it, I'll drop...