Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Waiting anxiously and alone in the main committee room, Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, sponsor and President of the Conference, paced up and down, clasping and unclasping his slightly rheumatic knuckles. An hour passed. Through the corridors of the Conference Museum, word of the three-man meeting traveled quickly. Delegates from all nations began thinking of returning to their 66 Fatherlands...
...Ballin and PI inn F. Morse of Detroit look at more than the para-thyroids when bones go wrong. The thyroid is frequently involved in cases of arthritis, although its main influence is in a general weakening of the bones without localizing the trouble. Disease of the pancreas or of the adrenals may also affect the bones. They mentioned a man who broke a leg while sneezing. Autopsy showed a diseased pancreas and a parathyroid tumor...
...Bonnet and Le Gouverneur managed to reach agreement. Fiscal experts of the U. S., British and French delegations paved the way to peace among their chiefs by deciding that, in their opinion, it should be possible promptly to peg the dollar, the pound, the franc. Since this was the main thing France wanted, M. Bonnet was soon exclaiming "We love Le Gouverneur...
Ruth Chatterton's main fault as an actress is that, however deplorable her circumstances may be, she remains a lady. Thus the most spurious moment in this picture is the one which shows Lilly Turner hunched drunkenly on the front seat of the medicine show truck which her lover is driving, guzzling whiskey out of a pint bottle and confessing, with improbably heroic hiccoughs, that she has a Past...
Died. Rose ("Rose of the Ghetto") Pastor Stokes, 53, famed U. S. radical labor leader; of cancer; in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. As a child (Russian-born) she worked in U. S. sweatshops. Later, a labor reformer, she met and married James Graham Phelps Stokes, socialite philanthropist, who divorced her 20 years later. She led many a strike, received but did not serve a 10-year sentence on a Wartime espionage charge...