Word: maidens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...catastrophe sequence comes when Irene and Dumond, hearing an innocent man has been arrested for Dumond's supposed crime, start back to Paris on a Vail liner making its maiden voyage. To imperil them. Tycoon Vail phones his captain to strive for a record crossing, in spite of pea-soup fog and icebergs. The disaster, supervised for seafaring technique by Sea Captain Frederick Fleugal and for special effects by James Basevi (San Francisco), is a reproduction of the sinking of the Titanic. The best shot in the picture-the horrible apparition of the fatal berg through...
John MacNev's letter of protest against the misuse of "John"-"Johnnies to us"-(TIME, Jan. n, p. 9), may I add the plea of a respected and respectable maiden lady against the humiliating abuse of her name. Born in the good old days when the children of the family were called Charlie, Maisie, Frankie and Johnny, I was christened Frances but called Fanny. What has been my consternation and embarrassment to hear this name constantly misused, particularly at present by a noisy neighbor calling to her recalcitrant child, "Frederick H. Jr., come in at once or I shall...
...Hollywood last week, Crooner Crosby, who also maintains a prizefighter, a girls' baseball team and a stable of race horses, one of which, Fight On, last week won its maiden race at odds of 80-to-1, announced that he would run a $3,000 invitation golf tournament at Rancho Santa Fe, near San Diego, on Feb. 6-7. Golfers wondered whether Mysterious Montague would be invited to compete and, if so whether he would oblige his friend and the public by accepting...
...wife revolting. Nor could the three friends arrange a divorce because Shaw could not afford to marry and Sparling could not afford to be divorced. Moreover, the scandal would have damaged the Cause. Shaw left. To his astonishment Sparling left soon after. May Morris got a divorce, resumed her maiden name. Although Shaw recognized that it was his own fault for not having told her how he felt before she married, he could never get over a feeling she should have known it anyway, still regards the mix up "as the most monstrous breach of faith in the history...
...written the book herself. Until its illustrator, Michael Grant (Melvyn Douglas), who had met Theodora on one of her rare trips to New York, arrived in Lynnnfield, there seemed no danger that her double life would be exposed. By good-humored blackmail, Grant compelled Theodora to persuade her maiden aunts to give him a job as gardener. Then he persuaded her to go berry-picking in trousers, fishing on Sunday morning and, in a final grand explosion of her inhibitions, to break with her aunts. In doing so Theodora also announced her love for him. At this point, Grant...