Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days did Tom Heflin learn that the election was over. "When I told him," reported Secretary Roy Parker, "he wasn't bitter at all. He just said 'The Lord takes care of His children and there are other things to be thankful...
...Representative for 14 years, 44-year-old Lister Hill is the son of Dr. Luther Leonidas Hill, said to be one of the first surgeons to operate successfully on the human heart and a pupil of England's Lord Lister for whom his eldest son was named. When Governor Graves this week appointed him to replace his wife, Senatress Dixie, the New Deal's leaders in Congress scored one victory, one defeat: When Lister Hill joins the New Deal bloc in the Senate chamber, the chairmanship of his Military Affairs Committee-the legislative guardians of TVA-will fall...
Shoemakers' humor is seldom subtle, but Welles has augmented his troupe with accomplished actors who perform the thwacking horseplay in fine style. As the ruddy little Crispin who becomes Lord Mayor of London, Whitford Kane personifies all the industry, sanity and lustiness of a jolly beefeater. Marian Warring-Manley as his good wife, Margery, waddles it like all the Wives of Bath and Mistress Quicklys who have dedicated their big bosoms and broad buttocks to England's earthy spirit...
...vividly written as Reed's masterpiece, Red Star Over China is slowed down by essays on Chinese history, discussions of education and propaganda, accounts of critical battles fought in inaccessible country. Delighting in the ramifications of Chinese politics, Edgar Snow seems to step aside to discuss every war lord who fought Chiang Kaishek, made peace with him, got mad, led a campaign against the Reds or accepted an alliance with them to fight Japan...
Eighth to enter the burgeoning U. S. pictorial magazine field, J. Stirling Getchell was one of the first to consider it, and he certainly has the unique distinction of being the only adman-publisher in the game. Since 1924, when he was a high-priced Lord & Thomas copywriter, Mr. Getchell has toyed with the picture magazine idea, in 1935 prepared a sample photo magazine but was unable to raise the $2,000,000 he thought he needed for Picture. His present 10? monthly was put out on a slenderer budget...