Word: mans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hubert's new friend was Dr. Frederick Albert Cook, ex-convict, ex-explorer, only living man who ever claimed that he led a party to the North Pole on foot...
Only other man who ever made such a claim was Rear-Admiral Robert Edwin Peary, who died in 1920. Both Cook and Peary were once presidents of Manhattan's famed Explorers' Club. Their portraits now hang there, side by side, although over Peary and Cook, three decades ago, exploded one of the fiercest controversies in the history of exploration...
...That Peary, a man of 53, by no means rugged, minus several toes lost on a previous expedition, could not possibly have sledged 150 airline miles in 56 hours over rough pack ice; that Cook did not claim much more than 15 miles...
...numbers is Mene, Mene, Tekel, a rousing piece of Biblical hotcha. Another is Bertha the Sewing Machine Girl, a funnier burlesque than the usual beer-&-pretzels music-hall version, which achieves "social significance" through its injunction to the innocent Bertha that "it's better with a union man." Best number in the show is The Harmony Boys, in which Father Coughlin, Fritz Kuhn and Senator Reynolds go into an uproarious song-&-dance, muttering lines like these of Fritz...
...guided a national move toward unfettered speech, once inaugurated a campaign which has pretty much driven stuttering comedians from the cinema. Its Ephphatha Club, named for the command ("be opened") by which Christ cured the stutterer, has loosened some remarkable tongues, including two opera singers and a young man who celebrated his emancipation with a soapbox speech in Union Square...