Word: margarete
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fire, which occurred during a raging snow-storm, started during a meeting of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts. The configuration, according to a letter from Margaret, the daughter of President Edwand Holyoke, began in a beam under the hearth in the library. The Governor and many of the Court assisted in extinguishing the fire, as did the President, who fought his way through five-foot drifts of snow clad only in his house clothes, to reach...
Characters: Patriarch Jeeter Lester (Henry Hull), a bent, rickety, boastful, obscene, stealing, lying scion of an old family who has discovered that semi-starvation is the only penalty for doing nothing; his wife Ada (Margaret Wycherly), mother of 16 of whom 13 have forgotten her; her unmanageable harelipped daughter Ellie May, tortured with the abnormal appetites of the deformed; her golden-haired daughter Pearl who somehow manages to remain a wife in name only; Pearl's normal husband Lov who bought her for $7, loves her vainly, beats her moderately; Jeeter and Ada's remaining son Dude whose...
...history of Ulysses is, in part, the history of literary censorship in the U. S. Irishman James Joyce started writing his colossal story of one Dublin day in France in 1914. In 1918 Ezra Pound sent part of it to Margaret Anderson who published it in her Little Review. The U. S. Post Office Department seized and burned all copies sent through the mails. Vice Suppressor John S. Sumner* had Margaret Anderson indicted for publishing indecent matter, caused her and her Co-Editor Jane Heap to be fined $50. Thirty thousand copies of Ulysses have been sold in France, mostly...
...years they reached an estimated total of $1,800,000. Although he always wore a derby when conferring with people in his office, he was fond of stylish clothes, wore a flower in his buttonhole, cut a figure about town. In time he acquired the 100-ft. yacht Margaret, became a commodore of the Philadelphia Yacht Club. He lived in Germantown, had a winter home at Hobe Sound, Fla. Last week, heart trouble took away his job in the only way in which it could be taken...
...when her onetime lover (John Halliday) shoots himself. Sent to jail for manslaughter, she reënters the house on 56th Street 20 years later as a lady black-jack dealer, plays cards against a grown daughter who has been taught to think her mother dead. When the daughter (Margaret Lindsay) shoots Peggy's partner (Ricardo Cortez) to avoid paying her losses, Peggy is again on hand, ready to take what the cinema calls "the rap." Typical shot: handsome Kay Francis explaining to Margaret Lindsay that "I'm the best friend you ever...