Word: heartly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Texas is the only State that was ever big enough to elect a woman Governor. But Texas women are terrific. From Miriam Amanda ("Ma") Ferguson to long-legged Mary (My Heart Belongs to Daddy) Martin, the women of the Lone Star State have been justly famed for their beauty, their temper, their incorruptibility...
Moslem Jinnah claims that he is a patriot. Close to his heart, he says, is Indian freedom from Britain. And yet his League was the one important political group to endorse the British White Paper of last month deferring dominion status until after the war. His reasons are partly political, partly religious. He is a minority-leader, who wants both to curry favor with Britain and to avoid a "freedom" in which Moslems are bound to worse enemies than the British...
Last week, just as the Metropolitan was brushing off its costumes for the opening of the opera season, 61-year-old Conductor Bodanzky died of heart disease. Willy-nilly, he left behind him a reputation as a Wagnerian conductor-one of the world's best. Under his morose, buzzardy stare, Tristans and Götterdämmerungs became not only the best produced, but the most popular operas in the Metropolitan's repertory. Behind the throne of General Manager Edward Johnson, Bodanzky was a great power in the Met, had more to say about who should sing what...
Died. Sammy Boy, 16, snow-white Siberian Samoyed brought to the U. S. by Arctic Explorer Roald Amundsen, so much in demand for commercial dog photographs that his name was listed in the Los Angeles telephone book; of a heart attack; in San Francisco (where he was to act in a charity show...
...first weeks of the war, and a commander who outguessed and outfought every Union General. Sandburg on Lee: "Enfolded in the churchman and the Christian gentleman, Robert E. Lee was the ancient warrior who sprang forth and struck and cut and mangled as if to tear the guts and heart out of the enemy. . . ." The Union General George Brinton McClellan, who prudently chose to fight a war of attrition, never meeting Lee if he could help it without overwhelming superiority in manpower, caused Lincoln a long year of anguish. Yet by resisting for months public and political pressure to remove...