Word: justins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston, yearning to join the Navy, Justin Francis O'Leary, 16, set out for Annapolis, Md., bought an enlisted man's uniform, joined the Naval Academy midshipmen as they returned from a football game. Soon he was arrested for failing to salute officers, was brigged, questioned, sent home...
...JUSTIN McACHON New York City Astor Case Sirs: ... I should think you would fear intervention of the postal authorities for sending obscenity through the mails, after your super-scandal-mongering of the Mary Astor-George Kaufman case [TIME, Aug. iyj. What, please, is the news value of such an article? FREDERICK W. STERN Cincinnati, Ohio Sexy but not obscene, the Astor case testimony had this news value : It was the biggest Hollywood scandal in 14 years...
OSCAR WILDE DISCOVERS AMERICA- Lloyd Lewis and Henry Justin Smith- Harcourt, Brace ($4.50). In 1881 the inimitable musicomedies of Gilbert & Sullivan were all the rage on both sides of the Atlantic. Shrewd Producer D'Oyly Carte was planning to send the authorized version of his latest G. & S. operetta, Patience, on a U. S. tour. It was also his notion to send ahead, as unconscious pressagent, the notorious original of Patience's esthete hero, Oscar Wilde. Carte put the scheme to Oscar as a lecture tour, a mission to preach beauty to the barbarians. Oscar bit. Authors Lewis...
Died. Henry Justin Smith, 60, on the Chicago Daily News since 1899 (except for 1924-26, when he assisted University of Chicago's president), managing editor since 1926; of pneumonia; in Evanston, III. Under his tutelage developed many well-known newshawks, including Ben Hecht, Howard Vincent O'Brien, Edgar Ansel Mowrer, Poet Carl Sandburg...
Said Louisiana State's mournful Tackle Justin Rukas: "I reckon we would have played a better game with Huey out there. . . ." He and his mates played well enough to beat Manhattan...