Word: marked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that removed from New Jersey to Ohio in 1804 and amassed a fortune in Cincinnati real estate and vineyards, Nicholas Longworth was born in 1869. He went to Harvard (1891), conducted the college orchestra. With money, social position and native wit, he went into politics under the guidance of Mark Hanna. After an apprenticeship in the State Legislature, he was elected to Congress in 1902. In the White House then was a slim saucy miss called "Princess Alice" Roosevelt. Congressman Longworth met her, danced with her, took her motoring in one of the capital's first cars. Under the chaperonage...
...Connecticut Yankee (Fox). Mark Twain's story was made into an effective farce in silent cinema days, starring Harry Myers; then it became a successful musi-comedy. But not until its present metamorphosis into a talking picture has a form been reached in which the many-faceted material is properly displayed. Few creative works are translatable from one medium to another, but A Connecticut Yankee is no less trenchant as a picture than as a novel; it is wonderful entertainment, rippling with chuckles, expanding often into resonant Twainian belly-laughs. Director David Butler has omitted the sociological satire...
...producers have not cabined themselves by letter-reverence to the script. They have gone on inventing, adding to the details of the fantasy, just as Mark Twain would have delighted in doing: the knights storming the castle of Queen Morgan Le Fay use submachine guns and ride in Austin cars; an autogiro arrives to rescue King Arthur; the tilt between Sir Boss (Will Rogers) and Sir Sagramor is an nounced in the manner of the modern prize-ring and broadcast by a whiskered radio man who begins McNamically: "Well, here we are at .Camelot. . . ." In this tilt Will Rogers...
...tells in the Bible the sensation of his new vision. He was the blind man of Bethsaida. Jesus "spit on his eyes, and put His hands upon him, [and] asked him if he saw ought." The blind man "looked up, and said, I see men as trees, walking." (Mark...
...Mark was an accurate reporter, testified one Earl Musselman of Philadelphia last week. Earl Musselman's blind eyes were opened just in time to see this year's Easter bonnets. Aged 22, he had been blind since birth. His uncle, a Philadelphia optometrist with whom he lived, believed that the cataracts which caused the trouble might be removed. Dr. George Henry Moore, Philadelphia eye specialist, consented to perform the difficult, delicate operations.* Last week Earl Musselman removed the bandages and, like the Bethsaidan, saw things differently than he had imagined them...