Word: herbert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Granville Hicks, '23, Teaching Fellow in American History, vigorously asserted his right to free speech last night at the New England Town Hall Meeting when Herbert Brutus Ehrmann, '12 moderator of the meeting, sought to prevent him from answering a question about Communism and Fascism over the radio...
...coaches on a train from New York City to Albany last week rode five despairing, middle-aged women put aboard by a noisy, demonstrative crowd of friends. In a parlor car on the same train, rode New York's bald, kindly Governor Herbert Lehman, glad to be unnoticed. At his office in Albany, some hours later, he met them face to face. For five hours Mesdames Fanny Zimmerman, Yetta Friedman, Ellen O'Loughlin, Yetta Chaleff, Mary Guariglia sat before him silent and tearless (by advice of counsel). For five hours he had to face them while lawyers-talking...
...after his retirement from office, Maryland's fat former Governor, Republican Harry Whinna Nice, gloatingly sent to his successor, Democrat Herbert O'Conor, a package of headache powders...
Said Miss Leigh, in real life Mrs. Herbert Leigh Holman, wife of a London barrister and mother of a five-year-old daughter: "I am grateful beyond words." Said Gone With the Wind's author, Margaret Mitchell, to whom Producer Selznick characteristically announced the news in a789-word telegram: "I'm so glad it's all settled...
...hatters, who consider twelve hats exactly the right number for the well-dressed man, picked the U. S.'s twelve best-hatted* men: Marshall Field III, Jack Dempsey, Herbert Bayard Swope, Adolphus Busch III, Grover Aloysius Whalen, Robert Cobb, Frank Michler Chapman Jr., William Gaxton, Bing Crosby, Tyrone Power Jr., Fred Astaire, James Melton...