Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...overseas. With all his other qualifications, he could well afford to speak out, in simple, declarative English on one or the other side of every so-called "issue" of his time. But he does not speak out. And it may be significant that most of the newsgatherers upon whose help he plans to rely in lieu of an active personal campaign are less and less impressed with him as a servant of the people, but more and more as a big, self-sufficient boy who, if given the whole government to run, would no doubt run it efficiently but insist...
Secretary Wilbur gulped and twisted in his front row seat. He looked around the House in pained astonishment. Representative Abernathy put out to give help. "The rules of this House provide the privileges of the floor to members of the Cabinet," he said. Mr. Wilbur seemed relieved, until Mr. Abernathy continued unkindly, "I am not a special admirer of the Secretary of the Navy...
dined formally at the Englewood, N. J., home of Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow, heard a motor horn tooting madly for help. Turned over, was a car in a ditch opposite the house and in front of the Englewood High School where Elizabeth Morrow, his hostess, eldest daughter of the Ambassador to Mexico, teaches. Out he went without hat or wrap to help Englewood natives extricate the hapless motorist. That done, he returned, happily unrecognized, rumpled & maculated, to the Morrow dinner...
Miss Judith Anderson in the leading and pathological role has a certain charm which offsets in part irritating elements in her handling of the part. At best she would have a difficult task, and Mr. Kelly has given her none too adequate help. In the last act she is effective in a Shelley-like conception of the waning moon when...
...Yoelson ("Al Jolson"), blackface comedian, said to Producer J. J. Shubert over long-distance telephone: "I'd do anything in the world just to help you out-for a certain sum." So it was agreed that Mr. Yoelson would appear in A Night in Spain, musical comedy now running in Chicago, at a salary of $10,000 a week for four weeks...