Word: lane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mersey River all night. Next morning it was raining. The dock was jampacked with newshawks, cameramen, workers, who thought they glimpsed the Lindberghs on deck, with Jon in his mother's arms. A tug warped the ship into its berth. A platoon of muttering bobbies carved a lane through the throng, stood in two rows staring into each other's faces. Charles and Anne Lindbergh, pale, came swiftly down the gangplank. A scattered, throaty cheer went up. Some of the men in rough clothes raised their caps. Anne Lindbergh smiled wanly. The day was so dark that...
Banned from Radio after Jan. 1 are hundreds of songs controlled by Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc. which lately parted company with the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers (TIME, Dec. 9). Missed most by radio addicts will be such long-familiar theme songs as Smiles (Ipana Tooth Paste), Memory Lane (Firestone Tires), When Hearts Are Young (Studebaker Automobile), Rhapsody in Blue (Woodbury Soap). California Here I Come (Bayer Aspirin...
Nell Gwyn, famous English actress and mistress of Charles II who worked her way into the Drury Lane Theatre group by gelling oranges, and David Garrick, a member of Dr. Johnson's group and renowned for his Shakespeare characterizations, are only two of the portraits on view in the Widener Theatrical Collection located on the top floor of Widener...
...were found two copies of Johnson's "prologue spoken at the opening of the Drury-Lane Theatre in 1747." One of these books is owned by the library and is now on display...
Half a mile farther down the mountain stood a small tent-city where a Marine detachment and Secret Service men shivered all the chill night through. Before the Little White House several members of the detachment stood guard. Presently up the wooded lane with a Secret Service man at the wheel drove a little touring car bearing a 1935 Georgia license plate whose sole symbol was "R." Behind it came more Secret Servants in a big Pierce-Arrow bearing a District of Columbia license and another plate, emblazoned "USSS." From the door of the Little White House, President Roosevelt emerged...