Word: kissing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British Author Evelyn John St. Loe Strachey, barred from the U. S. by Franklin Roosevelt's State Department for being a Communist (TIME, Oct. 24). Bailed out of Ellis Island on condition that he deliver no lectures. Red-stained Mr. Strachey nevertheless managed to throw a dubious kiss at Franklin Roosevelt: "My chief regret is that I cannot now express publicly my support for the New Deal and my detestation of Fascism and Nazism in all their forms...
Died. May Irwin (Mrs. Kurt Eisfeldt), 76, famed oldtime comedienne, the toast of Broadway in the early 1900s; of bronchopneumonia; in Manhattan. Her only cinema appearance (the 50-foot May Irwin-John C. Rice Kiss, which Thomas A. Edison made) shocked the '90s. Some of the famed songs she introduced: Hear Dem Bells, After the Ball Is Over...
...lettuce in to equal halves and gave one to her, keeping the other himself. He then explained politely that neither half would be redeemable without the other, entreated her not to send it to him in spite of any pleas he might make in the future, and depositing a kiss on her perplexed brow, departed for Cambridge...
...Kiss the Boys Goodbye (by Clare Boothe; produced by Brock Pemberton). The scene of a Clare Boothe play-however smart or sophisticated the sets may be-is a corpse-strewn battlefield. In The Women, warriors in Schiaparellish armor swept up & down Park Avenue, slaughtering, spreading poison gas, mowing one another down. In Kiss the Boys Goodbye, a second Civil War rages about the Connecticut countryside, and this time it is Grant who hands over his sword...
...party comes Invader Cindy Lou Bethany (Helen Claire), a Georgia Congressman's daughter and blood kin of Culpeppers, Covingtons, Albemarles. She comes with a Hollywood director to meet a Hollywood producer and nail the screen role of Velvet O'Toole, the Confederate heroine of the national bestseller Kiss the Boys Goodbye. Prattling and coy, she comes, with a hoopskirt, a guitar and blatant pride of race, smack into the presence of the most brutal wisecrackers and merciless limbchoppers in Yankeedom...