Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Favorably reported to the Senate by Wyoming's mild Senator Harry H. Schwartz, member of the Senate Committee on Claims, was S. 3046, A BILL For the relief of Richard D. Krenik, a farmer of Graham, Wash., awarding $450 to Farmer Krenik because WPA blasters working near his farm, on the Puyallup River Flood Relief Project No. 632, did with their dynamite so addle and jelly 250 turkey eggs in his incubators and under his hens that only 40 hatched, and of these 40 poults, themselves none too strong, 20 died soon after...
...rescue leaps Actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr., a well-intentioned masher with a way of laughing the law's locksmiths out of doing their sworn duty. The result for the first few reels is bright, well-ordered mirth from the gag-laden pens of Scenarists Gene Towne, Graham Baker and Allan Scott. But when the pens run dry, the authors resort to paleo-Chaplin antics like beery hiccups, pratfalls in a skating rink. Catchiest Jerome Kern tune: You Couldn't Be Cuter...
Night and Day, a London imitation of The New Yorker, was published from last July to January, then folded up. Its best piece of fortune was that it had libel insurance when dimpled, kink-curly Shirley Temple sued it because of Critic Graham Greene's review of her Wee Willie Winkie. One of England's famed film critics, Oxonian Greene, a devout Catholic, had found Shirley's acting offensive, and offensively intimated that it appealed to man's baser sex instincts. "She wore trousers," he wrote, "with the mature suggestiveness of a Dietrich. . . . Her admirers-middle...
...first met at a New Jersey dinner and soon recognized they held common interests, since the "Texas Talleyrand" had long been studying history and politics as a hobby, while Wilson had been writing and teaching them. Like the other muckrakers of that period,--Upton Sinclair, Judge Ben Lindsay, David Graham Phillips, and Lincoln Steffens--at heart Colonel House had the ideals of the reformer. After gaining Wilson's confidence, the shy and inconspicuous Texan won the opportunity to put his reforms into practice. But he dealt mainly with appointments and policies; he really chose Wilson's cabinet, making his friend...
...book is by Nathaniel Benchley, '38, Benjamin Welles, '38, and John Graham, '38. They have pieced together a tale of international intrigue including everyone from Mussolini to Princess Elizabeth. The plot concerns a group of American business men, who, tired of being mere economic royalists, decide to go in for the more traditional form of monarchy, and set up the Kingdom of Cafeteria in the heart of New York, seceding from the Union without causing much stir. But they need support, of course, and hence the dictators and democracies come blustering on to the scene. The treatment of the Rome...