Word: franked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...welcoming parade was over, Douglas Corrigan had his appraisal ready: "What? . . . only two hours and fifteen minutes. ... In Kansas City the parade was two hours and forty minutes." Down at the Hall Corrigan got a shiny gold medal. "This is a pretty good medal," he vouchsafed to Mayor Frank L. Shaw. Then he added: "Some of the others were better...
...real surprise came during a mass interview in the Ambassador Hotel, where Douglas Corrigan was assigned a double suite with no less a roomie than Governor Frank F. Merriam. While Governor Merriam took phone calls ("Mr. Corrigan's suite. Mr. Merriam speaking. . . ."), Douglas Corrigan admonished woolgathering reporters to listen more sharply and hold their tongues, refused to repeat answers to questions. When the ticklish interview was over, Reporter Agness Underwood of the Herald & Express ducked into Corrigan's half of the suite to telephone her story in time for her paper's next edition...
Lightnin' (by Winchell Smith & Frank Bacon; produced by John Golden). A sentimental, middle-aged first-night audience, typified by former Governor Alfred E. Smith, last week greeted Lightnin' in revival. Opening originally in 1918, Lightnin' ran 1291 performances, setting a Broadway record since topped only by Abie's Irish Rose (2,532 performances). Tobacco Road (2,050). Experienced theatregoers worried little whether Lightnin' would date, knowing that it already dated when first written. For old as folk drama is the tale of warm-hearted Lightnin' Bill Jones, who loafs as chronically...
...Lightnin', wave after wave of purest hokum sweeps across the stage, but so candidly that nobody minds. Famed Hoofer Fred Stone (Montgomery & Stone) proved himself a winning character actor, brought to the title role made famous by Frank Bacon if not the same homely vigor, a sly and childlike charm. Lightnin', as Actor Stone-borrowing an old line of his-remarked in his curtain speech, is a play "to which children can safely bring their parents...
...retail druggists in the U. S., sought public support for the most ambitious counterattack to date on what it called "sensational, destructive propaganda" of consumer groups. Conceived by elegant, tweedy, grey-mustached Editor Louis J. F. Moore, the Druggist's campaign is based on a frank appeal to buyers to put their trust in the biggest ads. Keynote: "WHO'S A GUINEA PIG? . . . The real guinea pigs are the people who experiment . . . take chances . . . with products which are NOT backed by a well-known house...