Word: hughs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Walter Reed Hospital in Washington last week discharged a distinguished one-night patient. Army doctors who gave him a thorough examination found General Hugh S. Johnson physically fit. It was well, because the NRAdministrator had strenuous work ahead. Two short, husky old Irishmen were limbering up to meet him next...
...pull many a patronage wire through Boss Farley, to the dismay of Michigan Congressmen. They rejoiced, if they did not assist, when the Detroit Free Press began to publish accusations against Collector Abbott: Deputy Collector John J. Tighe, his friend, had used his tax collecting credentials to solicit from Hugh J. Ferry, treasurer of Packard Motor Car Co., $50,000-$30,000 for the Democratic campaign deficit and $20,000 to lobby for PWA funds in Washington; other Abbott friends and appointees had "sold" postmasterships at $100 a head, had collected money to "assist" Michigan bankers to get the Government...
...just read with inward amusement of the wrath and indignation of our esteemed former Admiral Hugh Rodman, U.S.N., in connection with artist Paul Cadmus' painting The Fleet's In, as described in the Art department of TIME, April...
...sheer adversity entitles an actor to the title of trouper, Hugh O'Connell is a trouper of the Eagle Scout class. As a child he was sent West from New York with a trainload of other orphans. It was O'Connell's good fortune to be adopted by an affectionate couple in Kaukauna, Wis. His foster mother was as stage-struck as he, and when he had not earned his way into the Opera House by sticking up posters for a touring troupe, she usually could lay hands on a half-dollar to buy them both gallery...
That cycle of naughty dramas which began with Twin Beds and lasted through Getting Gertie's Garter and Up In Mabel's Room proved a boon to Hugh O'Connell. He was the drunk who always went to bed in the wrong room. In this time-tested sequence, he proudly recalls one trick which never failed to convulse his audience. Slowly pulling off his pants he would fling them into the chandelier. ''After that," he says, ''I could just lay back and rest for about five minutes." The Racket (1927) and Gentlemen...