Word: hughe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Long Road. Given an inferior actor for the leading role. The Long Road might have been a well-documented, thoughtful, but overlong play. Playwright Hugh Stange (Veneer, Fog-Bound) apparently has a talent for the sort of literary clairvoyance which goes well in novels, but he lacks the ability to condense, solidify and invigorate his material for dramatic presentation. Only a superior player like Otto Kruger (The Game of Love & Death, Karl & Anna), whose Barrymorose features were used to great success in The Royal Family, could have succeeded in interpreting the nuances of Playwright Stange, breathing the breath of life...
...realized vaguely she was of finer mould than he. Grace's only child had been born dead, she could never have another. She had almost given up expecting anything to happen. She ate too many chocolates, went too often to the cinema. Then one day she met young Hugh Miller, nephew of Tom's boss. Hugh was an aristocrat who did everything well, even wandering. They met only a few times. He thought she was queer but rather nice, soon forgot her when he went away. Her memory of him lasted the rest of her life...
Alabama. Republicans in convention voted to put up no party nominees for Senator or Governor, tacitly decided to throw their 50,000 votes to the independent candidacies of Senator James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin for re-election and Hugh A. Locke for Governor. Republicans hoped less to elect these men than to break still further the state Democracy...
...broad and three narrow sleeve-stripes of the full admiral are: Henry Thomas Mayo, 73, 1916-19 Commander-in-Chief of the Atlantic Fleet; William Shepherd Benson, 74, Wartime Chief of Naval Operations; William Sowden Sims, 71, 1917-18 commander of U. S. naval forces in European waters; also Hugh Rodman, 71, Hilary Pollard Jones, 66, Robert Edward Coontz, 66. Last U. S. Army officers to receive the rank of a lieutenant general (abolished as a regular Army rank in 1907, temporarily revived during the War), are Maj. Generals Hunter Liggett, 73, and Robert Lee Bullard, 69, Commanding Officers...
...called Actor Edward Hugh Sothern "a pink-toed high-hatter" (TIME, March...