Word: frederick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good old days when the children of the family were called Charlie, Maisie, Frankie and Johnny, I was christened Frances but called Fanny. What has been my consternation and embarrassment to hear this name constantly misused, particularly at present by a noisy neighbor calling to her recalcitrant child, "Frederick H. Jr., come in at once or I shall spank your little Fanny!" I shall be glad, indeed, to serve as Regional Secretary for a chapter of a Society for the Prevention of the misuse of the name "Fanny." It might prove simpler, however, to have the "Fanny chapters" a subsidiary...
...banana knockers' in Eua, Nukualofa, Tonga Islands, only one is a Harvard 1912 man." Some 1912 luminaries who failed a Benchley citation: onetime Securities & Exchange Commissioner Joseph Patrick Kennedy, New York's former Republican State Chairman William Kingsland Macy, Massachusetts' Representative Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth, Author Frederick Lewis Allen (Only Yesterday), New York University's Richard Offner, expert on Florentine Art, Japan's steamship tycoon Ryozo Asano, the New York Times's Science News Editor William L. ("Bill") Laurence...
...years has there come to Boston a play that promised more than "The Masque of Kings". Its director, Philip Moeller; its designer, Lee Simonson; its stars, Henry Hull, Margo, Pauline Frederick, and Dudley Diggs; its author, Maxwell Anderson--these names augured well. It would be pleasant to say that these potentialities have been realized; pleasant but not true...
...acting is almost uniformly good. As the Emperor Franz-Joseph, Dudley Diggs is superb and quite overshadow Henry Hull, who does his best to give life to the part of Rudolph. Miss Frederick has little to do but does it well Margo is as beautiful as ever--and still has the irritating habit of delivering all her lines in one sobbingly petulent tone of voice. But all in all, it is a distinguished cast, and it really deserves something better from Mr. Anderson in the way of a play...
...Buffalo, N. Y. last fortnight Frederick L. Schoeptlin's neighbors complained to police of his Doberman pinscher's night-time barking. A judge threatened a $100 fine if the offense were repeated. Owner Schoeptlin took his dog to a veterinarian, had it debarked by a simple nicking of its vocal chords. Outraged were zoophiles by this deprivation of the dog's chief emotional outlet. Last week Buffalo's indignant S. P. C. A. concluded after careful study that the operation was not illegal, launched a campaign for a State law forbidding...