Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Walter Huston, who got practice for his rôle by playing Presidents Grant and Lincoln in earlier cinemas, tries a little too hard to look like a Hearst cartoonist's idea of a benevolent dictator, but he sounds impressive. A little disappointing is the performance of Franchot Tone-the ablest young stage actor who migrated to Hollywood from Broadway last year-in a rôle which requires him to supply simultaneously romantic interest and the austerity proper to his station...
...conscious of having exerted a considerable influence, not counting her husbands. During her second marriage (to Edwin Dodge, Boston architect) her salon in Florence was famed throughout Europe. "Everybody" in the art world visited her, from Gertrude Stein to Eleonora Duse. In Manhattan she was a hospitable hostess to Lincoln Steffens, the late John Reed, Walter Lippmann, Emma Goldman, Carl Van Vechten, Robert Edmond Jones. She was largely responsible for the art exhibition which featured the famed cubist A Nude Descending the Staircase. Her fourth and current husband, full-blooded Taos Indian Tony Luhan, she met when he was acting...
...speakers will be: G. H. Acheson '33, Lincoln Bryant, Jr. '33, A. B. Gardiner, 3d '33, H. M. Lawn '34, S. M. Peyser '34, A. E. Phillips, Jr. '34, Leo Srole '33, D. M. Sullivan '33, C. W. Yungblut '34, J. R. Yungblut...
...Louis McHenry Howe, Roosevelt Secretary-crony, took up permanent residence in the Lincoln Room at the White House. A small man, he refused to sleep in the 9-ft. Lincoln bed which was moved into another room...
...Hearst Land next December they expected to see an airplane fly over their heads. The plane would be making a non-stop flight from Ross Sea to Weddell Sea and return. In it would be three famed flying explorers-Lincoln Ellsworth, Bernt Balchen and Sir George Hubert Wilkins, who discovered Hearst Land...