Word: heraldic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time to talk. Most of his students have feared his harp tongue and quick impatience. But they have respected his great learnings and gloried in his eccentricities and mannerisms. More salt of the Kittredge kind in colleg lecture halls would be a boon to American education. --New York Herald-Tribune...
...Stanley High, onetime editor of the Christian Herald, who was recently loaned by National Broadcasting Co. to work for the Democratic National Committee, brought to the White House the first fruits of his new labor: the directors of the Good Neighbor League, newly organized to promote the New Deal's "Good Neighbor" policy. Among the directors were Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Methodist Bishop Edgar Blake, Dr. George Foster Peabody, Mrs. Estelle M. Sternberger, Banker Amadeo Peter Giannini, Social Worker Lillian D. Wald, Dr. Henry Goddard Leach. Object of the League was to unite the forces of Feminism, Piety...
Died. Percy Hammond, 63, since 1921 the New York Herald Tribune's witty and magniloquent drama critic; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...
...arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune next day hastened to Mr. Lawrence's side with the cry: ''[Mr. Roosevelt] is showing again the Roosevelt who can't 'take it' - the man who when he meets with criticism is moved by the desire to crush his critics by means foul or fair." To this the loudly pro-Roosevelt New York Post responded : "No President in American history has 'taken' more and taken it with better grace than Franklin D. Roosevelt. . . . But let one breath of criticism be directed at these three pompous commentators...
Since Bright Eyes Shirley Temple has grown full of honors. Her position as box-office champion last year was determined by Motion Picture Herald's poll of U. S. exhibitors. As rival to President Roosevelt and King Edward VIII for most photographed celebrity, she appears in an average of 20 still portraits daily for magazines, newspapers and advertisements. In addition to being, accurately speaking, the most popular cinemactress, Shirley Temple is the ablest song-plugger in Hollywood. Sheet music sales on her songs, like Polly Wolly Doodle and On the Good Ship Lollipop, are over 400,000 copies each...