Word: laura
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...betray the Hays code. The daughter (Margaret Perry) of a respectable household attaches the affections of a married man. Instead of disowning her, her father (Lewis Stone) tries to be helpful. The girl's brother (Robert Young) goes to Paris to study art, leaving his mother (Laura Hope Crews) to pine and die. There are no penalties herein attached to inconsiderateness and immorality. The girl weds her lover tardily divorced-and bears him twins. Her brother, failing as a painter, becomes a contented wallpaper designer...
When the Diocese of New York chose a high churchman to be bishop eleven years ago many a low church Episcopalian was annoyed, including one of the Cathedral's most regular worshippers, an elderly, strong-willed lady named Laura Shannon. But Very Rev. Howard Chandler Robbins remained as dean, and so when Miss Shannon made her will in 1924 she left the Cathedral $937,500. Then dissension arose at St. John's, culminating in the resignation three years ago of Dean Robbins (TIME, Jan. 14 & Nov. 4, 1929). Last week when Miss Shannon's will was read...
...Ohio's Brand, Louisiana's Fernandez, Texas' Garner, Texas' Williams, Minnesota's Christgau, Kentucky's Thatcher) with two namesakes hired. ¶ Democratic Floor Leader Rainey paying his wife Ella $208.33 per month as secretary. ¶ Chairman Collier of the Ways & Means Committee paying Laura Collier $180 per month. ¶Chairman Vinson of the Naval Affairs Committee paying Mary Vinson $116.66 per month...
...Miss Helen Clarkson Miller (1929-32) resigned before attaining comparable fame as great educators of New York's best daughters. Last week the Spence trustees announced their next move. To run the new Spence plant and continue the proud Spence tradition they had called upon Miss Valentine Laura Chandor, able proprietress of the foremost remaining small school for New York fashionables...
...Copley production has its faults. Interest on the part of the audience lags through most of Act 1; the younger the people of the play, the greater is the tendency on the part of the actors toward an amateurish flavor. Only during the second act do we believe that Laura Simmons is the person the author intended her to be, and throughout the play there is a feeling that only Shepherd Strudwick, as Ainger, of the supporting cast, is genuine...