Word: ladyes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Relentlessly the resolution to depose Leader Curry was read, and the vote taken. The clerk was almost half way down the list before a Curry vote was heard. When the outcome was inevitable, one tearful lady leader bawled: "I can't vote against Mr. Curry! He's been...
When Charles II was King of England, the goldsmiths of London were his bankers. To him they lent well but not wisely and were ruined when he decided not to pay his debts. So when William III needed money in 1694 the Bank of England was created, the bank lending...
Comedy by Charles Butterworth and a couple of good songs are the highlights in "Cat and the Fiddle," sweet little romance starring Ramon Novarro and the perennially young Jeanette McDonald. Ramon and Jeanette are student musicians in Paris. Jeanette has money and Ramon has talent, which facts interfere with the...
MEMORIES OF MY CHILDHOOD-Selma Lagerlöf-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). For human character, as for meat, salt preservative. Selma Lagerlöf is an old lady but she is salty. Best-loved Swedish writer, she is no Pollyanna but a wideawake female citizen whose rose-colored spectacles sometimes conceal...
Marbacka is still in good Lagerlöf hands. Old lady Selma Lagerlöf spends her summers there, in the modernized manor house (see cut), oversees the cultivation of its 140 acres, the welfare of its 53 tenants.