Word: latters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Work pitched the letter over his shoulder onto a mail-littered table. "Oh, I'll look that over later," he said. Mr. Raskob's emissaries bore another envelope, addressed to Herbert Hoover. At the latter's campaign house, they were received by Bradley D. Nash, the number-two secretary, a cheerful young gentleman (Harvard) with nice manners. Mr. Nash was embarrassed and courteous but, of course, Mr. Raskob's emissaries left without any answer from Mr. Nash's chief...
...Work did not reply. Instead, he approved an outburst by his publicity chief, onetime (1919-23) Governor Henry J. Allen of Kansas. The latter referred to the Raskob letter as "another screed expressing . . . mock indignation"; accused Mr. Raskob of "deliberately dragging in the issues of religious intolerance...
...York, chief campaigners were Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Mayor James John Walker. The latter dropped in at a hotel where Mrs. Smith was being given a banquet and a diamond-studded vanity case by 1,000 civic-minded women. Mayor Walker kissed Mrs. Smith twice and before hurrying away, cried out: "I leave behind my congratulations for this recognition of the most beautiful flower in this garden of womanhood, Mrs. Alfred E. Smith...
Dorothy Gish is cast in Young Love as a tempestuous and idealistic latter-day maiden striving to assure marital congeniality by pre-nuptial experiment. In the first few lines, she and her fiancé express satisfaction with last night's trial. To make it doubly sure, they exchange partners with their unconsulted host and hostess. Miss Gish completes an affair with host, but fiancé quails before hostess. Then follow two acts of confessions, recriminations, door-slammings, to end with four-way felicity the way it should be (according to the movies). Despite such items as "I love...
George S. Kaufman's book is far from being good and the plot of the show is too foolish to mention. There are songs and dancing, the former less remarkable than the latter. But Harpo, when he is through playing the harp, peers like a prisoner through the strings of his instrument; he pursues a girl quietly wherever she goes; his are light fingers as well as light touch and he picks pockets with dexterous greed; on meeting a new person, he offers his leg to be held and he whistles strangely...