Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the residents of "Newberry Hall," run by an elaborately folksy old gentleman named Humphrey Newberry (Charles Coburn), are a he-man who gives blood donations, a dyspeptic who reads obituary notices, a Kansas City beauty contest winner, a cinemacting goose that earns $15 per day for its owner. Plot complications are ground out when a personable newcomer (Russell Hardie) turns out to be not only a university psychologist but the estranged husband of Newberry's daughter. For humor Sun Kissed draws heavily on the special California attitude toward oranges, climate, Florida, earthquakes...
...notorious of all communist experiments was the Oneida Community, scene of the "world's one great experiment in human eugenics." The subject of many a historical sidelight, Oneida Community last week filled the background of an auto biography written by one of its "eugenic" descendants, whose father, John Humphrey Noyes, founded and led the Community for more than 30 years in the light of "scientific propagation and true Christian Communism...
...finest publicity of her career, that Generalissimo Franco had no designs on her. On other film figures, however, he frowned angrily last week, banned from White Spanish territory all films to which the following "radicals" have contributed: writers Upton Sinclair, Clifford Odets, Liam O'Flaherty, Dudley Nichols, Humphrey Cobb; screen stars Paul Muni and Luise Rainer; directors Lewis Milestone and Frank Tuttle; producer Kenneth Mac-Gowan. In reply last week, 98 U. S. writers signed a manifesto against General Franco. Declared they: "We cannot keep silent when war becomes a slaughter of the unarmed, the innocent and the helpless...
...Ecker made it six up for the Crimson early in the second period. Despite the deficit the constantly improving Elis took advantage of many jumps resulting from Harvard five-man rushes, and before the period ended D. Humphrey, Platt, and Andrews beat Kidder, now playing in the Crimson net. Pope scored his second goal of the evening on an unassisted dash...
...seen considerable shifting throughout the season because of continual sickness among the players. For the last few games it has been the same each time. The first line consists of Captain Bill Moore at center flanked by Danny Badger and Clint Childs. The second line features the famed Humphrey combination, which has accounted for most of the Eli scores throughout the season...