Word: margarete
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Critic Margaret Bruening (Evening Post), who was not caricatured, found the pastels "handsome portraits which are actually flattering to the sitters." With Machiavellian cunning, Satirist . Bacon who is far from ugly caricatured herself more cruelly (see cut) than she did any of the critics...
...received $800 from another source and procured the postmanship at Dale for S. Grant Johnson. But he insisted these receipts were not bribes. The Government prosecutor produced pin-pricked $100 bills used to trap Rowbottom. When after two hours' deliberation the jury found him guilty on four counts, Elizabeth Margaret Rohsenberger Rowbottom, his wife, fainted dead away...
Left. By the late Dr. John Thompson Dorrance, president of Campbell Soup Co.: $1 14,850,733; to his wife, Mrs. Ethel Mallinckrodt Dorrance ($100,000, life interest in one-fourth the estate); his son John Thompson Jr. (life interest in onefourth); his four daughters, Ethel, Margaret, Charlotte, Mrs. Nathaniel Peter Hill (the remaining half) ; all to be held in trust until the majority of John Thompson...
Four suits still pend after the tunnel streetcar crash. Helen Sheehy asks $40,000. Jean Sheehy asks $5,500. Irene Roylance asks $6,500; Mrs. Margaret McCabe $50,000. Scout Watson was paid $21,500 in an out-of-court settlement; 36 others have also settled out of court, receiving $11,283.25 in amounts ranging from $4 to $2,500.-ED. Lippmann, Keynes & Strachey...
Lawyer Ernst marshalled an attack upon the character of the Society. He summoned famed writers and artists to testify that the Society "could not tell the difference between filth and literature." Writer Carl Van Doren called the Society "a conspicuous nuisance in the community." Heywood Broun, co-biographer with Margaret Leech (Mrs. Ralph Pulitzer) of Anthony Comstock, said that the plaintiff's reputation was "bad." Artist Rockwell Kent testified that by emphasizing the "filth" in books which it disapproves (notably Jurgen, Casanova's Homecoming and The Well of Loneliness) the Society has boosted sales of such books beyond...