Word: herbs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radio crooner's hummmm was last week officially recognized as an undesirable instrument of erotic suggestion. Banned from the national chains was a popular cinemized waltz written by Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown. Words...
...WEDNESDAY, MAY 31 (X) 2 P. M. Military Science 1 Memorial Hall Military Science 3 Memorial Hall Naval Science 1 Memoriel Hall Naval Science 3 Memorial Hall THURSDAY, JUNE 1 (III) Anthropology A Mallinckrodt MB23 Anthropology 1b Sever 29 Astronomy 1 Sever 36 Botany 7 Gray Herb. Botany 13 Biological Lab. 476 Chemistry 1b Mallinckedt MB9 Classical Philology 26 Sever 29 Economics 1b Sever 7 Economics 31 Sever 30 Engin. Sciences 9b Pierce 304 Engin. Sciences 13 Pierce 307 English 2 Memorial Hall English 61 Sever 35 Fine Arts 9d Fogg Large Room French 9 Harvard 6 Geography 7 Sever...
Valerian is a cheesy-smelling sedative prepared from an herb root. Last year chemists compounded it with zinc or ammonia, loaded the mixture with ether, sealed it in glass thermos bottles. About five months ago Chicago thugs, hired by racketeering labor unionists, began smashing such thermos bottles inside factories and showrooms. When the highly volatile ether spreads through the room, bearing molecules of the valerian compound, the compound penetrates carpets, garments, walls, floors. Overwhelming is its lasting stench...
Take a Chance (book by Bud G. De Sylva & Laurence Schwab; music by Nacio Herb Brown, Richard Whiting. Vincent Youmans; Laurence Schwab, producer) is fast, noisy, funny. It reverts to the pre-Depression type of musicomedy, makes no pretense of smartness but loses no entertainment value by its atavism. Buried in a torrent of gags, girls and Jew blues is a plot: a Harvardman, trying to cash in on his Hasty Pudding Club theatrical experience, woos and wins a lowly dancer whose fortune two shoe-string impresarios try to promote. No Harvardman was ever more blond and decorous than Jack...
...went West. She named Mrs. Elizabeth Chandler Sunier of Iowa City as the person who started Herbert Hoover's education. Interviewed last week, Mrs. Sunier declared: "Did I think Bertie would be President? Of course I didn't and I wish they wouldn't call him Herb. . . . There was none of this first day crying for him. No, sir! I remember I thought he was unusually cute. He never looked at me that he didn't smile. Was Bertie particularly bright? No, he wasn't but he paid such close attention...