Word: humphrey
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Since its beginnings in 1934 at Bennington College in Vermont, the American Dance Festival has been a movable summer proving ground for modern choreography. Early Greats Martha Graham and Doris Humphrey, for instance, welcomed the summer respite from battling ballet in New York City to present new works in sympathetic surroundings. At one point, they also welcomed the opportunity to snub each other: they led their companies to opposite sides of the school cafeteria. But in the decades that followed, the rivalries waned. The festival has nurtured a range of choreography-Merce Cunningham and Paul Taylor, José Limon...
...Muriel Humphrey's decision to wed High School Friend Max Brown (both over 65), Pepper nodded cheerful approval...
...touch. He discovered that he could live handsomely off subsidiary rights. The Thin Man (1934) was his last and most careless novel; it ultimately brought him almost $1 million from film and radio serializations. Hollywood kept recycling his material; the 1941 version of The Maltese Falcon, with Humphrey Bogart and Sidney Greenstreet, was the third film based on that book in ten years. Hammett had always shown a streak of to-hell-with-it independence, and success made him increasingly reckless. He partied and drank too much, offended studio heads and publishers with his disregard for deadlines...
More broadly, London insists that Ulster will remain British as long as a majority of its population-two-thirds Protestant-so desires. Humphrey Atkins, British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, last week created an advisory council composed of 50 Protestants and Roman Catholics to help him govern Ulster. That plan was criticized by Protestants fearful of a "sellout," but former British Labor Prime Minister James Callahan went further. He called for a separate parliament and citizenship for Ulster...
...course. Tom himself had yet to achieve hero status. One could imagine even the young inventor going home to read Tarzan, or, as the times changed, sitting in a theater to watch Sam Spade or Philip Marlow or Humphrey Bogart. Or watching newsreels of Lindbergh. Even Tom would respond to that hierarchy. It may have been an unprecedented spree of hyperbole, but the newspapers called Lindbergh's landing "The biggest news story since the crucifixion of Christ." Well, obviously, it wasn't the biggest story since Roman times--but it might have been the biggest news story. News, after...