Word: funning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There the feud ended and the fun (and publicity) began. From New York City hurriedly flew Jack Kirkland, author of Tobacco Road, to be in at the kill. In Minneapolis crowds stormed the box office, rushed the theatre, packed its seats, clogged its aisles. While the audience waited, happy as clams at high tide, for the curtain to rise, Potter got more and more Jeetery backstage, needed the whole company to drape his rags about him, suffered trying to chaw plug-tobacco behind stage whiskers...
Fortnight ago Harry Selfridge's son, handsome, fun-loving H. Gordon Jr., resigned his directorships in Selfridge's and its West London white elephant, William Whiteley, Ltd. (bought in Britain's 1927 boom), but kept his managerial job in the 19 Selfridge Provincial Stores throughout England and the London suburbs. A U. S. citizen, Gordon Jr. now has an unpaid job in the Ministry of Information's Home Publicity Department. Father Selfridge, now definitely in retirement, plans after visiting Chicago to return to his London office (whose windows are covered with autographs etched in with...
...legged Frank Scully, who wrote Fun in Bed after 20 operations and many years in hospitals, ran for California's State Assembly in 1938 on the slogan, "Out of the Gully with Candidate Scully." Though defeated, he got as reward for supporting Governor Culbert Olson the job of administrative assistant and secretary in the Department of Institutions. His boss was Director Aaron Rosanoff, well-known psychiatrist...
...fun but deplorable conditions Scully said he found in his new Job. Without consulting his superior he began to correct them. Said he: "When there is a fire I don't wait to get permission to put it out." Inmates of a Los Angeles school for the blind were receiving harsh treatment, said he, from civil service employes. He questioned whether the death of a young inmate of Whittier State School near Los Angeles was suicide, as reported; said inmates were being grossly mistreated and cruelly punished. Last fortnight Dr. Rosanoff fired Frank Scully, later charged that affairs...
...sense Author Langewiesche's informative, engaging book is merely a skilful advertisement for flying-for-the-fun-of-it and for the planes which make such flying possible. But the author's enthusiasm alone is more than disarming on that score. What he has done is simply to give a deftly selective account of his own career as an impecunious amateur: the virginal application for lessons; first flight cross-country, by dead reckoning; a siege of "aero-neurosis," parachuting, a flight along the desolate eastward shelf of the continent. By the time he is done...