Word: herbs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Guards, Jerome Bannigan, a clubfooted, baldish young Scot who prefers to be known as George Andrew McMahon, left his home in Paddington. Author of a series of articles entitled Unmoral Girls, Vacuum Cleaner Vampires, Is Nudism Immoral? Why I Shall Not Marry, Too Old at Thirty, McMahon ran an herb shop in Netting Hill at which he tended counter in a wing collar and a long frock coat. A violent opponent of capital punishment, he had written a series of abusive letters to Home Secretary Sir John Simon. At 9 o'clock that morning a pair of Scotland Yard...
...championship Stanley Cup. The Brobdingnagian encounter between Maroons and Red Wings last week was the first of a three-out-of-five series between the group leaders. The Red Wings-ablest team in the League on their pre-playoff record, built around a crack forward line (Larry Aurie, Herb Lewis, Marty Barry) which scored no points during the season-won the second game, 3-to-0 and the third, in Detroit, 2-to-1. Meanwhile, the Maple Leafs beat the Bruins, 8-to-6, in a two-game, total-goal series, and the Americans beat the Black Hawks...
From the Alley to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer went Nacio Herb Brown and his teammate, dandified Arthur Freed, who has been known to order 25 suits at a time. As a youth, Composer Brown sang in a Los Angeles church choir, worked week days as a tailor's apprentice. When success first came to him in Hollywood he bought a lavish estate at Malibu Beach, four big automobiles. Brown's big song hits have been Singing in the Rain, Wedding of the Painted Dolls, Pagan Love Song, Broadway Melody, All I Do Is Dream...
...AMERICAN PEOPLE!" screamed the Hearst Press, Governor Landon's chief journalistic support to date. Some weeks ago imaginative observers began suggesting that the Kansas Governor's self-chosen appellation of Alf M. Landon might prove as distasteful to fastidious voters in 1936 as J. Cal Coolidge and Herb Hoover would have been in 1924 and 1928 (TIME, Dec. 23). Last week Aspirant Landon arrived at the same conclusion by a different route, let it be known around Topeka that, "perhaps I shall have to learn to adopt my christened name. ... If I stuck...
...noteworthy. Miss Swarthout and for that matter, even John Boles deserves better treatment However, Miss Swarthout is thoroughly charming throughout whether singing or acting, and the movie seems to have recorded her voice with considerable fidelity. Charles Bedford as usual makes a disagreeable villain, and Willie Howard and Herb Williams carry off the straight comedy parts with a great mastery and gust...