Word: frames
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...offices of the Bureau are in the rear of Gannett House, a small white frame building opposite the Massachusetts Avenue entrance to the street car subway. Office hours are from 9 to 5 o'clock during the week and 9 to 1 o'clock on Saturdays. The spring examination period causes the staff considerable worry so the office is closed from April 17 to June...
...against an 18-year-old girl. Muckraker Liggett's Wife Edith promptly countercharged that "Governor Floyd B. Olson's gang" was trying to "disgrace and discredit Walter by making the alleged offense as dirty and infamous as possible. . . . The prosecution of Walter is one of the foulest frame-ups ever engineered. . . . [Walter has] demanded the impeachment of the Governor on ten definite counts...
Save for the discomforts incident to following such a versatile leader as Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Robinson can congratulate himself today on one of the most comfortable places in public life. Some two months of the year he and his wife spend in their rambling, old-fashioned frame house in Little Rock. He also finds time to travel abroad as a statesman, a taste which he acquired from attending Interparliamentary Union conferences in England and serving as delegate to the London Disarmament Conference in 1930. For fun he likes nothing better than to go fishing and shooting (he is a crack...
Joan Crawford's big-boned, over-dieted frame, breezing in & out of clothes, has the appeal of cold turkey. Her laborious refinement and sincerity are expertly relieved by the acidities of Edna May Oliver. The plot: Robert Montgomery, non-marrying lady-killer, is talked into marrying Joan Crawford. Because he cannot stop lady-killing, Joan piously makes him an apparent cuckold in public. This reforms him and, in what passes for high breeding in Hollywood, these two snarl, mutter, sneer, whine, shout their love at one another...
...dancing collegians turned to the stomping Casa Lomas. But with success the Casa Lomas are more & more mechanical. The Vallée band plays just as it always has, but Conductor Rudy has proved an unexpected showman, smart enough in radio to find new talent, provide a skillful frame. Most "hot" jazz fans still regard black Duke Ellington as the greatest of jazz orchestra leaders. Benny Goodman is currently the peer of "hot" white musicians, having supplanted the Dorsey Brothers, who have commercialized their idiom...