Word: janee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...protege of an intrigue with Fluff. Now intent on revenging himself on his own fighter, Nick sends Ward into the ring with instructions calculated to allow the champion, whose manager has been informed of the plan, to win. Halfway through the fight, Fluff and Nick's sister (Jane Bryan), with whom Ward is actually in love, convince Nick of his error. Nick then reverses his signals, Ward wins the title, and Nick and Turkey settle their differences by gunplay...
Chicago Lawyer Newman A. Du Mont died last September, leaving an estate in excess of $100,000 to his mother, Mrs. Loretta Du Mont. His pretty widow, Jane Wilson Du Mont, 29, went into Probate Court and was declared a legal widow, entitled to one-third of the real and personal property in the estate under Illinois law. Mother Du Mont appealed, denying the validity of her son's 1932 hasty marriage in Crown Point, Ind., part of the record of which had been lost...
Ronald Colman makes a number of facial expressions for a satisfactory performance. He is well supported by such as Jane Wyatt, John Howard, Edward Everett Horton, excellent photography, and a unique beginning...
...Cornhill Magazine and the Dictionary of National Biography, kept open house for the great literary men of his day (Meredith, Stevenson, Ruskin, Hardy, John Morley, Oliver Wendell Holmes). The classic dead crowded the shelves of his library. Though Virginia Woolf's experience was as restricted as Jane Austen's, her reading knew no bounds. She began early to write reviews for the august London Times Literary Supplement, and still does. When she and her husband, Leonard Woolf, founded the Hogarth Press (1917), they began by publishing limited editions of such promising newcomers as Katherine Mansfield. John Middleton Murry...
...Woman. Of the Englishwomen of letters before Virginia Woolf (Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes) none had her advantages. She was brought up as a young lady of the Edwardian era, with all a young lady's privileges but no prunes and prisms. She was too delicate to go to school, and no Edwardian restrictions were put on her reading. She never lost her faith for she was never taught any. And her huge connection (her eight brothers and sisters had two different fathers) gave her entree into the useful worlds of English literature and English society...