Word: glorias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...display of wine glasses, bowls, plates, bottles, candlesticks, vases; a tableful of heavy molded "architectural" glass for cornices, tiles, columns. Prize of the show was a slender glass fountain by Sydney B. Waugh, 1929 Prix de Rome winner. Other exhibits: a pair of glass slippers made to fit Gloria Swanson; a replica of Steuben's 16 by 8 in. glass casket in which, in Santo Domingo City, repose a few handfuls of ashes that were once supposed to be Christopher Columbus...
...Gloria Perkins, 10, whose mother is a church organist in Queens Village, Long Island, and whose father, Clemmett Birdsong Perkins, is Eastern Passenger Agent for the Norfolk & Western Railway Co., played the Mendelssohn Concerto with the National Symphony in Washington. Gloria is a wispy little girl who wears big hair ribbons and oily black corkscrew curls. She took so long to tune her violin that the audience started to titter. But the feeling rapidly changed as the Concerto got under way. Gloria was not only technically expert but her playing had a simple persuasive quality that touched the audience deeply...
...prostitutes, millionaires and college footballers, Carl Laemmle Jr's Universal studio specializes darkly in supernatural pasquinades. The hero of The Invisible Man is as nasty a pumpkinhead as Frankenstein's monster or The Mummy. He is a young physician named Griffin, whose love for beauteous Flora Cranley (Gloria Stuart) is not sufficient to prevent him from discovering a drug which not only makes him invisible but turns him simultaneously into a homicidal lunatic...
...Gloria Scigliano swam from the shore to the island on the same day: time, 57 minutes. Miss Anastasia Scott, daughter of an Army sergeant stationed on the island, negotiated the distance in 47 minutes earlier in the week. In line with efforts of criminals who might attempt this means of escape, she started from the island. The feat was also accomplished by one Mabel Green as far back...
...Office-power. After this, Mr. Leverett made a Short Speech in Latin to the Governor then Sir Holyoke made an Oration in Latin. In the Next place, Mr. Danforth Minister of Dorchester went to prayer; in the Last place part of the 132. Psalm was Sung; (closed with the Gloria Patri) and thus the Affair was ended...