Word: forded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gray, unaccented, often pointless, Back Door to Heaven shows the progress of dim-witted Frankie Rogers (Wallace Ford) from the wrong side of the tracks to the wrong side of the bars. Largely a one-man job, the picture owes its sincerity and its faults to husky, sentimental Director...
...unnamed lender. This left only some $114,000 ($11,400 a year) before income taxes to support his wife and four children. Mrs. Bird frequently did her own washing and the girls sometimes scrubbed floors and cooked. Their moderate-sized house was beautifully kept, but they drove a Ford. Finally the strain got too great. Thinking the market was going up, Viggo Bird embezzled...
...Italy, one of Europe's best-dressed women, sporting a wool-like suit and sweater made of skim milk, brought 70 dresses synthesized from milk, wood, reeds, to be shown at the Fair's Italian Pavilion. Attending the dedication of the "Roadway of Tomorrow" at the Ford Motor Co. building were Henry Ford, 75, Son Edsel Bryant Ford, 45, and Grandson Henry Ford II, 22, a Yale junior. Keynoted Ford I: "Great things are ahead...
...first college course in the modern novel. A superb showman, he made world headlines when he invited Gene Tunney, who had just cut Dempsey to ribbons, to lecture Yale students on Shakespeare. [An optimist, he finds Schopenhauer "a charming companion."] Friend of Galsworthy, Conrad, Henry James, Shaw, Santayana, Henry Ford, he is a "hero-worshipper" who once told Joseph Conrad he loved him; a critic who called the swing of Eddie Guest's poetry "perfect," Joyce, Dreiser and such moderns "rubbish...
...Western culture must be carried-on by America after the next war," Bertrand Russell, world-renowned author and philosopher, said when interviewed last night. Russell, who addressed the Ford Hall Forum yesterday, predicted that the toll of another world war would be so great that "Europe will no longer count in civilization...