Word: maile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Work Done. Last week the U. S. House of Representatives: ¶ Passed (180 to 27) a bill permitting the Postmaster General to award mail contracts to purchasers of U. S. shipping board lines without advertising or competitive bidding...
further particulars, should mail their completed designs (colored, drawn to scale, mounted on heavy cardboard), to the Committee of Twenty on Street and Outdoor Cleanliness, No. 2 E. 103rd St., New York City...
...Lady to Love (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Sidney Howard's They Knew What They Wanted-the play of the waitress from San Francisco who went to the country to marry a man she had never seen, who had proposed to her 'by mail- was made into a silent picture in 1928, with Pola Negri. It was called then The Secret Hour. A Lady to Love is less sophisticated than The Secret Hour but it is splendidly acted and well cast. Vilma Banky is the waitress, Edward G. Robinson the man she marries, Robert Ames the handsome farm hand whose...
...overwhelming appeal of this pair, whose daily mail is prodigious, whose popularity unquestionably exceeds that of any other radio performers, consists chiefly in their blending of simple narrative interest with skillful Negro characterization. People who for years have followed the fortunes of Mutt & Jeff and the Katzenjammer Kids are naturally agog to discover what will happen to Amos 'n' Andy in their next radio installment. People who have roared mightily at Moran & Mack and the late great Bert Williams are naturally prepared to enjoy the Negroid inflection and viewpoint of Amos 'n' Andy. Their dialogs describe...
...equipment they abandoned. The last thing Admiral Byrd did on shore was to haul down the U. S. flag. As the ship pulled away for her three weeks' trip, through the icepack of Ross Sea, to New Zealand, and as his men breakfasted or dragged their sacks of home mail to reading seclusion, he saluted two long objects which rested, dejectedly, they seemed to him, on an ice knoll. They were the Ford and Fairchild airplanes which had carried him on his surveys of 150,000 Antarctic square miles...