Word: lil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...then: "I supported Smith three times and that was three times too many." Next year he ditched the Democratic ticket to back rich, reactionary, Republican Ogden Mills unsuccessfully against Governor Smith. In 1928 Presidential Nominee Smith was viciously cartooned in the Hearst press as the political consort of "Diamond Lil" Democracy, aglitter with John J. Raskob's vulgar diamonds. To climax the feud Publisher Hearst in the 1932 Chicago convention swung his Garner delegates to Franklin D. Roosevelt thus insuring the latter's nomination. Muttered deeply disgruntled Democrat Smith: "As long as Hearst and McAdoo are running the Democratic Party...
what does little Ernest croon in his death at afternoon? (kow dow r 2 bid retoinis wus de woids uf lil Oinis Those who would like to see a good take-off on the white cult of the Negro will find one in Poem...
...Manhattan, Broadway reporters picked up the trail of a Frank Wallace who played the part of a Bowery singing waiter in Mae West's Diamond Lil in 1928, learned he had died two years ago. Actor Wallace's picture zipped over 3,000-mi. of telephone wire to Hollywood. Mae West: "Yes, I remember that face. But I was never married to anybody." ¶Manhattan newshawks rooted up an-other Frank Wallace in a theatrical hotel with his dancing partner, Trixie La Mae. Readily Hoofer Wallace admitted it was he who had married Mae West in Milwaukee. Hearst...
...territorial Government bought Iolani Palace as a Governor's mansion. It still stands, enlarged but little changed. There on March 1, "Judge" Poindexter was sworn in as Governor by his friend Justice Banks of the Hawaiian Supreme Court. There, with his daughter Helen, Governor Poindexter stood in Queen Lil's throne-room giving formal reception to all and sundry who tramped past the statue of King Kamehamcha I, across the landscaped grounds, and through the Governor's door...
...respect, at least, this must be considered the most significant play presented at Harvard for many a year. An amateur production which can boast among its designers Virgil Thomson, collaborator with Gertrude Stein in that lady's only opera, and Joe Losey, director of "Lil' Ole Boy," is rare indeed. But the consideration of these facts must make the critical judgment of the effort more searching than would otherwise be the case. In respect to theme, "A Bride for the Unicorn" cannot be considered as more than a competent synthesis of a group of philosophical and aesthetic conceptions which have...