Word: likes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week in Manhattan occurred an event to which Republicans like Senator Robinson would, if they could, have liked to point as showing the Democratic tie-up with the stockmarket. James J. Riordan, president of the New York's County Trust Co., close personal friend of Alfred Emanuel Smith, committed suicide with a revolver. For a whole day the news was suppressed lest a run on the County Trust develop. Ill health and mental derangement were given as the official reasons but stockmarket losses were suspected, admitted. Mr. Raskob was named acting chairman of the bank, which auditors quickly...
...notion of Time, which hints that past, present and future are illusory, that the impression of fleeting moments, hours and years is not to be trusted. Suggested by Henry James's Sense of the Past, written by John L. Balderston, London correspondent of the New York World, it comes, like so many plays this season, from London. The story is of Peter Standish, young U. S. citizen living in his ancestral London townhouse, who likes the 20th Century so well that he suddenly finds himself back in it in the person of his great-great-grandfather. But while...
...unholy ghost. The girl whom he knows his ancestor did marry turns away from him in fear and, tragically, he finds himself falling in love with her sister. This affair is ill-fated even though the lovely Helen knows of Peter's long journey through the years and, like him, perceives that the veils of Time are thin. She is unwilling to see him suffer in an age ill-adapted to his experience, so back he goes to his own century to fondle Helen's memento, still preserved in the old house, and to ponder her epitaph while his 20th...
...make him set the others free. He is too proud to punish her, so the pair are forced to separate until the third act when he arrives in Hollywood and finds her, scorned by the cinema critics, in a more congenial mood. Mr. Tellegen is emotionally expert but, like Messrs. Faversham and Atwill, he is working with material which is hardly adult...
Engaged. James Waterman Wise, publicist (Jews Are Like That), son of Stephen Samuel Wise (famed "liberal" Rabbi); and a Miss Elizabeth Halle Kraus; in Manhattan...