Word: harrington
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believes, sold the Federal Government the Hudson River bluff on which the U. S. Military Academy stands at West Point, N. Y. Her great-aunt was appointed West Point postmistress by President Polk, served for 49 years. Her mother was born at West Point. Her father, Lieut. Henry Moore Harrington, graduated from the Academy in 1872, was killed with General George Armstrong Custer at the Little Big Horn. For kindly, plain-faced Spinster Grace Aileen Harrington this distinguished ancestry brought its reward: appointment as West Point postmistress...
...Alan S. Harrington, J. Spence Harvin, Stanley W. Herzfeld, James C. Hopkins, Jr., Henry P. Hoppin, William W. Hunt, Danforth Jackson, William S. Knowles, Charles W. Lawrence, Adrian F. Levy, Roger C. Lyndon, John D. Maloy, Lewis H. Mills, Robert H. Morse, Henry S. Mowbray, Robert D. Nuner, Schuyler Pardee, Constantine W. Patterson, S. Allen Pendleton, George W. Phillips, Benjamin Pitman, Jr., Edward P. Richardson, Jr., Edward H. Schoyer, Paul P. Selvin, Willard P. Sheppard, Jr., Edric B. Smith, Jr., Gray Taylor, Elkan Turk, Jr., George S. Viereck, Jr., Hugh G. Williams, David B. Wire, Richard Witkin...
Clipston S. Harding, of Portsmouth, N. H.; Alan S. Harrington, of Hingham, Mass.; Joseph S. Harvin, of Fort Worth, Texas; Richard W. Heurtley, of Darien, Conn.; Henry F. Howes, of New York, N. Y.; Winthrop S. Jameson, Jr., of Belmont, Mass.; Lawrence M. Levinson, of Chattanooga, Tenn.; Richard W. B. Lewis, of Philadelphia, Pa.; Irving M. London, of Malden, Mass.; John F. McCluro, of Harrisburg, Pa.; William B. Miller, of Concord, Mass.; Sumner A. Pendleton, of Somerville, Mass.; Sheldon P. Peterfreund, of Glen Lyon, Pa.; Charlton D. Pierce, of Tilton, N. H.; Fred Rogosin, of Dorchester, Mass.; Sidney Sulkin...
...touts, thugs, politicians and demimondaines has for its sphere the mansion rented by Remy Marco (John Harrington). Marco has been a brewer for some years, but only legally since 1933. It is consequently of some embarrassment to him when his faithful retainer Mike (Joseph Sweeney) discovers upon arriving at Saratoga that an upstairs room is occupied by four "parties." These parties, Mike reports, have firearms in their laps and poker cards in their hands, but their sport has been spoiled by someone's having shot them all dead. It subsequently develops that the parties had just knocked...
...orphan proves invaluable in thwarting the bankers and bringing the course of true love to a satisfactory conclusion. As has already been demonstrated on the screen (Little Miss Marker, Lady for a Day), the more involved a Runyon character is written, the harder it is to act. Actor Harrington seems to interpret Marco not so much as a droll picaroon but as a bumbling slob. But as Mike, Actor Sweeney is a soft-spoken Runyon killer of the first order. If A Slight Case of Murder outlasts Three Men on a Horse, its aging kinsman in the theatre next door...