Word: leans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...James's. His official position would have made it hard for him to say no to his President whether he liked the job or not. A brusque and belligerent veteran of the London Naval Conference, Ambassador Dawes was no expert on the matter of land disarmament, would have to lean heavily on technical advisers. Only the most niggling of Mr. Hoover's critics would suggest that he had shunted the Ambassador to Geneva to nip a nascent Dawes-for-President boom. Last week Ambassador Dawes prepared for a rush trip to the U. S. for instructions...
...been a lean year for everyone," said Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald with suppressed emotion. Then, faced by the conference that is to meet Jan. 18 to do something about Reparations (see p. 7), he burst out, "For God's sake let us meet...
...notorious long-time publisher, the late Col. William D'Alton Mann) detectives found themselves stopped by a blank wall and a peephole window marked "Subscriptions" through which a girl clerk told them no one was in. The raiders forced a door, found Editor Augustus Ralph Keller, a lean, sharp-featured, red-nosed little man with gold-rimmed spectacles. He was already awaiting trial on a charge of criminal libel brought by William Brown, vice president of Radio Corp. of America, to whom he allegedly tried to sell stock in Town Topics before printing an insinuating story (TIME...
...from the sort of thing one has grown to expect of Playwright Benn W. Levy (Mrs. Moonlight, Art & Mrs. Bottle). And his comedy is populated by four of the most pleasant players now to be seen: wide-eyed Helen Chandler (rescued from Hollywood) ; facile Leslie Banks (late of tragic Lean Harvest) ; handsome Frieda Inescort (she has toured with George Arliss); and Nigel Bruce, the funniest man to be discovered by Manhattan theatregoers since Guy Kibbee was brought to light as a mortuary supply salesman in Torch Song last year. Admired in London, Actor Bruce first charmed U. S. audiences this...
...Author. Bernard Sobel is at present press agent for Showman Florenz Ziegfeld. He once held the same position for lean Earl Carroll and gained a good deal of his knowledge of Burlesque in the employ of the Brothers Minsky (Abraham, Billy, Herbert & Morton), New York's best known Burlesque impresarios. He was once, his publishers insist, an instructor in English at Purdue University. In the present thick quarto he has assembled a number of photographs of oldtime Burlesque Queens and comedians, larded them with reminiscences of the days when hefty May Howard would not hire any girl who weighed...