Word: jeans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unhappy because Jack & Jean, the farmer's children, dislike milk. Orgets Bee & Baw retire to a dell to ponder Cow's plight, come upon two starving baby foxes. Back to the farmyard they flit, persuade Cow to lumber off to the dell with milk for the foxes. On the way clumsy Cow catches a hoof in a railroad track, is nearly killed by a train. Jack & Jean, overcome by Cow's bravery, agree to love her, drink milk...
...would-be mothers find little time for childbearing, Mrs. Walrath got her share of the business. Some applicants she turned down flat. But, usually reticent about names of her patrons, Mrs. Walrath is proud to admit that from The Cradle to Hollywood have gone Gracie Allen's Sandra Jean, Joe E. Brown's youngest child, Mary Elizabeth, Pat O'Brien's year-old Mavoureen, Miriam Hopkins' curly-mopped Michael...
...Finland, away from the world's musical spotlight, there lives a bald, rotund old man who with his music has won more respect than almost any other living composer. Finns idolize their Jean Sibelius, stamp and cheer when they hear his music expertly played. Last year they cheered Werner Janssen, son of the Manhattan restaurateur ("Janssen Wants to See You"). And because Sibelius praised him lavishly too, young Janssen was given a chance this winter to conduct the New York Philharmonic-Symphony...
...Kroll's hobby," explain his friends, "is pretty women." When he is not painting them, he likes to show them his one brown eye, one blue, make conversation by asking which they prefer. His cinema heroines are Mae West and Jean Harlow. Flippant and temperamental. Artist Kroll works hard at his painting and his beautiful young French wife sometimes takes her knitting to the studio while he paints. With her and his bilingual daughter he speaks French...
...worked his way through the Art Students' League by washing brushes and sweeping floors, studied under the late John H. Twachtman, then in Paris with Jean Paul Laurens. His first real encouragement came from venerable Winslow Homer. He made friends with three contemporaries who were quick to gain nationwide reputations: George Bellows, Robert Henri, Eugene Speicher, and all of them, the latter particularly, influenced his work...