Word: hashes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...loggerheads* with Mrs. McCormick's father. When Miss Hanna first saw Miss Roosevelt, the latter had just "burst upon the world as Princess Alice." Miss Hanna thought Princess Alice a harum-scarum. Princess Alice thought the young lady who presided over the griddle cakes and corned beef hash at Senator Hanna's political breakfasts in Lafayette Square, a superb prig...
What is TIME? A hash of special interests, or a reflector of universal news ? If news appears in any department, print it (as indeed you do). Let unnewsworthy space-fillers alone. Your judgment may err, and you may profit from occasional advice, but we trust your good sense of balance to be better than any of us could achieve. Your editorial discrimination, as well as your condensation, is worthy of our praise and loyalty. Avoid "departments...
Merry-Go-Round. This second Richard Herndon revue with few people against many backgrounds may be dismissed as a sample of unseasoned summer hash, flung in a heap and presented in a panic. But out of respect to the memory of its saucy ancestor, Americana, be it recorded that William Collier calls Charles A. Lindbergh a "fly-by-nighter," that Marie Cahill recites a telephone monologue, that Evelyn Bennett dances like chained lightning, that Knox Herold catches the stern spirit of Bill Hart in a movie burlesque. Miss Bennett,* whilom "Baby Eva Tanguay" of vaudeville, looks like a street cherub...
...rival, the Scripps-Howard News, which is served by the apparently heinous United Press. The News printed two accounts, one from a United Press man and one by the Associated Press, which serves the gambling Post but whose report on the Presidents speech Publisher Bonfils had seen fit to hash, jazz, garble and publish without naming its source...
...supports them by being decorative in the lobbies of small hotels. Successful Oliver Galbraith and his prim wife Cathie are the foil of respectability. They assist Jill's faithful airedale, Chips, in keeping her wholesome and girl-scoutish. Doreen finally goes off with a Latin-American. Jack makes a hash of his suicide, thereafter "awakening." With devoted Jill by his side he starts back up the hill of self-support to fetch a pail of the water of self-respect. ... Author Delafield writes well up to her pretensions, which are neither large nor small...