Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alan and Gabrielle lie on the floor with their arms around each other, should raise audiences' hackles higher than anything on the Manhattan stage since the Group Theatre began producing its blood-&-thunder Red melodramas. Spectators get to hoping desperately that in the general gunplay, Duke Mantee (able Humphrey Bogart in a stubble beard) will somehow forget to shoot Actor Howard, who has turned in another of his fragile, impressively assured impersonations to adorn a notable career. But everyone must know his jig is up when he tells Actress Conklin: "We'll be together always-in a funny...
...haired, at 56 President Hill looks less like a major railroad executive than the schoolmaster he once set out to be. A banker on the side, he is married, has two children, will get twice as much ($40,500) in his new job as in his old. Negro Cook Humphrey Bowling of "No. 99," the president's private car, rates him thus: "A good man, but a poor eater...
...Time & Tide, which she founded as a feminist weekly and which still employs only women in the office. Only child of the late David Alfred Thomas, Welch "coal king," she inherited his vast business interests, his title, his amazing vitality. As Lady Mackworth (she is divorced from Sir Humphrey Mackworth) she went to jail and hunger-struck in the Pankhurst campaign for women's suffrage. She was aboard the Lusitania when it was torpedoed. She has fought for the right of peeresses to sit in the House of Lords. She scorns feminine frills, looks like Amy Lowell, regards idle...
...George and Marina. Correspondents who followed them into the Balkans were stood off by Inspector Evans with lavish treats of Serbian beer. He made copy with such jokes as "Now there, keep away. I have a policeman stationed behind every tree. No photographs!" When the correspondents grew restless Major Humphrey Butler. Adjutant to Prince George, joined Inspector Evans in describing at length the prowess of His Royal Highness. "He can outwalk either of us," they said. "Once the Prince climbed to Prince Paul's hunting hut in an hour and 45 minutes. Even the native mountaineers consider it good going...
...four-year term went to George C. Matthews, onetime member of Wiscon sin's utilities commission, the man whom President Roosevelt made a Trade Commissioner last October after ousting William E. Humphrey whose conservative ideas did not suit the New Deal. Messrs. Healy and Matthews are nominal Republicans...