Word: fondest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...news. Rosita's picture was splashed over the world's press. At week's end a Hollywood friend sent a cautious cablegram to Segovia saying she had heard that Rosita had been in "a serious accident." Back came a cablegram signed "Rosita" saying, "I am well. Fondest greetings." It seemed that Senorita Diaz had scooped the finest publicity of her career, that Generalissimo Franco had no designs on her. On other film figures, however, he frowned angrily last week, banned from White Spanish territory all films to which the following "radicals" have contributed: writers Upton Sinclair, Clifford...
Then LIFE appeared, with text condensed into captions for 50 pages of pictures, on heavy coated paper, also at 10?. As LIFE's circulation skyrocketed beyond its publishers' fondest hopes and their presses' best capacity, from 380,000 copies of the first issue to more than a million this week, Monte Bourjaily perceived that he had missed the market that was waiting for a U. S. pictorial weekly. Last week he announced that he would give Midweek Pictorial not death, but a whiff of anesthetic. He would discontinue its publication until such time as he could "give...
...talismans of William Shakespeare and Walter Huston will rightly lure Harvard men by the drove, no matter what a critic may say. And indeed no sane critic could protest, the entertainment is as rich and abundant as the fondest playgoer can conceivably expect...
Harvard has been at this sort of business for so long that it can bide its time Harvard, almost alone among our universities, need not hurry. For it knows that if it never did anything else from now until doomsday, it has already vastly surpassed the fondest anticipations of its founders in contributing to the "advance of learning and to the perpetuation thereof to posterity...
...picture of which Doris Lee is fondest is The Runaway, showing a girl in a streaming yellow dress gripping the mane of a bolting horse. The Haunted House is a dilapidated structure, surrounded by grim and groping trees, with all the windows on the third floor boarded up except one from which a wildly gesticulating woman is leaning. One of the best is The Widow, an Amazonian figure with feet planted wide apart, grasping the bridles of two snorting, dancing horses. There is one nude, a pert, heavy-legged girl with fruity lips, combing a mop of chocolate-colored hair...