Word: martha
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hysterical historical" sketches begin with George Washington discussing a radio broadcast about to be made by Martha, whom he keeps calling Eleanor. The opening of Annapolis serves as a background for a performing chow dog named Red Dust which comes in draped around a lady's neck like a fur piece and is, thereafter, in a state of almost continual collapse. Abraham Lincoln is master of ceremonies in a scene on the banks of the Potomac in 1865 which features a uniformed tenor singing "There's Moonlight in a Kiss" to a girl in crinoline. When President McKinley...
...cast, in order of appearance, includes George H. Reed as Frederick Granton; Howard Patch, Jr., as Phipps; Frederick P. Gray as Lord Birton; Richard Sullivan as Petley; Miss Norma Taylor as Princess Anne; Miss Mary G. Williams as Queen Martha; William L. Batt as General Northrup; Henry H. Reed, Jr. as King Eric VIII; John MacD. Graham as Major Brent; Harry B. Sanderson as Prince William, Herschel T. Berman as Laker; and A. Jerome Himelhoch of late fame in the peace strike, as Dr. Fellman of anarchistic leanings...
Snubbed back Martha Ijams: "Thousands of alumni have no respect for President Sproul for playing politics with the Perkins woman...
...years as a zealous alumna, clubwoman and W. C. T. Unionist, Martha Ijams had rarely been so misunderstood. When she read the White House interpretation, she tossed her blonde hair (which she wears in a modified Gibson Girl coiffure), determined to make her snubs crystal clear. Back to Washington over the press wires went her answer: "I have nothing but contempt for [Mrs. Roosevelt]. She is as presumptuous as usual in her assumption as to what I intended or did not intend relative to Miss Perkins. Why should I answer her? Nothing she ever says is worth answering. The obvious...
...last survivor of the race of heath hens died in 1932 on Martha's Vineyard (TIME, April 11, 1932). Cause: overshooting, grass fires. The Eskimo curlew was extinct by 1925. Cause: overshooting during migration. The passenger pigeon disappeared just after the turn of the Century. Cause: market hunters killing nesting birds. The petrel and flicker of Guadalupe Island vanished about 1906. Cause: cats, goats. The Carolina and Louisiana parakeets were never seen after 1904. Cause: demand for caged birds. Great auks have been extinct since 1844 (TIME, Nov. 26). Last week specimens of all these unfortunates were included...