Word: hadn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lief, was put to teaching WPA art classes. Last autumn Rob Godfrey painted a bright portrait of his wife looking attractive and intense in a sport coat and plaid scarf. She thought it was good enough to submit for the National Academy of Design show. He did not. Hadn't they turned down his portrait of her in an evening gown last year? Anneliese God frey kept arguing morning, noon & night. Finally on the last possible day, just to please her, Rob Godfrey submitted his portrait. Out of more than 5,000 entries it was one of 278 pictures...
...that, Chicago's honest Dr. Rudolph Wieser Holmes, 66, stood up to declare: "I was the man who first brought scopolamine to this country. I wish to God I hadn't done it! I didn't know what I was doing. I have seen hundreds of women die on the delivery table because of the wrongful use of drugs. The Utopia when physicians have a drug that is safe for both mother and child will come. But it will take a long time...
...Maxwell Anderson was on the brilliant staff of the late New York World. Anderson hadn't gone to war, but he collaborated with the World's book critic, Laurence Stallings, who had, in writing What Prince Glory, a play meant to prove that glory is gained by a bloody price in War. It was a smash hit, but not for its profanity alone...
...called White two mildly vulgar names. Without ado, the agile little onetime hoofer hit Vallée square on the nose-a tender spot ever since its reconstruction by plastic surgery in 1933. Said Mr. Vallée's attorney: "Rudy would have killed him if they hadn't stopped the fight. George White is a Maxie Baer. He has had too much night life...
While other Administration officials fretted privately at General Johnson's honest sniping, spunky Secretary of the Interior Ickes barked at a press conference in Washington: "He a critic? Why, he's helping the Administration. Perhaps you hadn't noticed that. . . . Since the good General was bucked out as head of NRA he's been suffering from mental saddle sores...