Word: maidens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief eye-attraction is Armida, a sprightly maiden from Hollywood (General Crack, A Texas Moon), who capers through some heelful routines. Most
...this bitter remark was aimed at Walter Folger Brown of Toledo as much as at Simeon Davison Fess. The latter was never a member of the Harding-Daugherty-Jesse Smith inner circle, though party and State loyalty required him to flay the Ohio Gang's critics in his maiden Senate speech. Postmaster General Brown was not a Harding Gangster, either, but he now controls the bulk of the party's patronage...
Dancing Partner. The plot of Dancing Partner is the one in which a young and disillusioned rakehell wagers that he can avail himself of the favors of an allegedly virtuous maiden, then discovers that she is impregnable and falls in love with her. Shakespeare thought it such a good idea for a play that he used it in Cymbeline. Furbished up by Producer David Belasco, the play officially inaugurated the 1930-31 season and provided one interesting innovation: a seduction scene in an airplane, high above the clouds...
...Previously known by the mere "courtesy title" of Viscount Lascelles, Princess Mary's lanky spouse is supposed to have smoldered angrily for years because His Majesty has not thought fit to create a new title for him. Last week, at the age of 47, he made his maiden speech on the Royal Veterinary College, pleaded for a larger Government appropriation, while Princess Mary beamed from the gallery...
...marriage with Count Joseph Gizycka, Austrian-Pole, whom she met in St. Petersburg and Vienna and married in 1904. After their divorce in 1908 she appealed to the Tsar, won custody of their daughter Felicia. In 1925 she married Elmer Schlesinger, Manhattan lawyer. After his death she resumed her maiden name...