Word: maidens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...improbability of the plot is nearly too much of a handicap for the cast, who rescue the play from the depths of ham melodrama by skillful and intelligent acting. White slavery on the Chinese and San Francisco water fronts with the usual handsome young hero to rescue his fair maiden from the clutches of would be evil doers are the ingredients of the plot. This time it is further complicated by the difficulties of a liaison between a Chinese girl and her American lover, but love finds a way before the final fade-out so that the audience...
When he delivered himself of a sage maiden address before the Oxford Union last spring (TIME, Mar. 3), young Mr. Churchill?named for his grandfather Lord Randolph Churchill (1849-95), fiery Conservative orator?was conscious that he was making his first steps along the path to statesmanship. Capitalizing his youth rather than allowing it to be a handicap to him, as did the younger Pitt and the late Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, young Mr. Churchill is visiting the U. S. on a lecture tour. Whig-Clio Hall at Princeton was his first engagement. There he gave his address "The British...
Describing his astounding maiden speech Winston Churchill (friend of 25 years) has written that "for the space of an hour 'F. E.' lisped and purred an unceasing series of blistering, glittering, carefully studied and audaciously flung taunts and insults in the teeth of the triumphant majority"?with the result that the late Lord Balfour, then Britain's No. 1 Parliamentarian, crossed the House publicly to congratulate Smith M. P., and he was "made...
...Galloper took the woolsack (a large red cloth cushion stuffed with wool), sat on it as a Lord Chancellor must, rested his foot on it now and then as a Lord Chancellor must not. In 1919 he became Baron Birkenhead, in 1921 accepted a Viscountcy commemorating his wife's maiden name (Furneaux), and in 1922 was created Earl of Birkenhead with an arrogant-humorous armorial motto of his own devising Faber Meae Fortunae: "[I'm] the Smith of my own Fortune...
...Superstitious Britons last week lamented that the R-101 had often been referred to in the press as "Titanic of the Air." The White Star Line's S. S. Titanic rammed an iceberg and sank with 1,513 souls on her maiden voyage in April...