Word: iii
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mara's idea of the amount due him (TIME, Nov. 17), reminds me of the days when kings offered half their kingdoms- and now Mr. Hoff and his claim, if granted, would make Mr. Tunney's victories as expensive as the horse Richard III called...
...Herbert III and Peggy Ann are going back to the White House for a long visit. Last week they and Baby Joan were brought on from California by their mother. They stopped at Asheville, N. C., where their father is recuperating from tuberculosis. They planned to take him up to Washington for the presidential Thanksgiving dinner. Then Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Hoover Jr. would leave the children in Grandmother's care, while together they went back to Asheville to live. The top floor of the White House was abustle last week with preparation for the grandchildren's occupancy...
...even more than I trust my friend. Mr. MacDonald. I trust the man whose name is George, whom you call His Majesty. He knows India better than any of his Ministers, and we are looking to him to do justice to 320,000,000 of my fellow-countrymen. George III lost America. Let history record that George V won India...
Members of the Fordham University football team last week eyed with disgust Rameses IV, a large untidy ram. Three weeks ago Mascot Rameses III, who had brought victory to the team for two seasons, was worried to death by mongrel dogs. Immediately a delegation was sent to a New Jersey slaughter house to pick a fit successor, for Fordham's game with St. Mary's College. The delegation surveyed all rams with care, picked as Rameses IV one whose tough, untidy appearance made him particularly lucky looking. Fortnight ago at the St. Mary's-Fordham game, Rameses...
...Lawrence (Warren William). Vinegar Tree then proceeds to unfold some uncommonly good comedy for three acts, during which the artist finds himself entangled by Miss Boland and her younger sister and her virginal daughter. After the younger sister and the artist have gone into the garden together in Act III and the daughter is safely in the arms of her fiance, Playwright Paul Osborn shoots his bolt: Miss Boland is informed by her husband that her oldtime seducer was not Painter Max Lawrence but Pianist Lawrence Mack. The play is sustaining, sophisticated, recommendable...