Word: m
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...main reason I'm not running is simply because I've only had a four-year crack at this Chronicle job from topside, and being a fathead I think I need a couple of more years anyhow. The dope is I'm sort of a squirt, a very egotistical one-so egotistical that I think I'm smart enough to know I haven't done the job with a newspaper yet. Maybe I'll wait and run for President...
...walked into a church where Fort Worth's Rev. J. Frank Norris (who had just been acquitted of murder) was preaching, shook his finger in the preacher's face, boomed: "Dr. Norris, you murdered D. E. Chipps." Threatened by the congregation, he shouted: "Come on, I'm not afraid of a mob! I can lick a mob with a switch!" He was charged with disturbing public religious worship, but conducted his own defense, examined himself and Dr. Norris (who was not present), won instant acquittal on the ground that the services did not constitute religious worship...
...M. J. Divine, better known as Father Divine...
Proud of the Sonovox, he does not regard it as a main-line achievement. Said he: "I'm a writer by trade. If I haven't got a writing job, fine-I'll fool around with this thing. But it's writing I want...
...case of third-act anemia, for which the authors last week were preparing transfusions. Ladies and Gentlemen pleased San Francisco, may make good box-office on Broadway because of: 1) its stars, 2) its Hecht-MacArthur gags. Sample (by a frequently-pregnant woman): "My husband says I'm better than an honest slot machine...