Search Details

Word: martinisms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...delegates instead of by a mere majority, he started something over which Democrats have been wrangling for 104 years. Romulus Saunders was simply doing a job for Boss Andrew Jackson, who thereby made sure that John Caldwell Calhoun did not get the Vice-Presidential nomination away from Martin Van Buren. The first beneficiary of the two-thirds rule became its first victim. In the 1844 convention Van Buren got a majority vote for the Presidential nomination on the first ballot, could not raise it to two-thirds. Tired delegates compromised on Dark Horse James K. Polk. At Baltimore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Two-Thirds Out | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

Besides the April March of Time and the Fox Movietone News, there is a short called "Secrets of a Cathedral", in which the grins, leers, smiles, frowns, and pained expressions of the stony denizens of the Cathedral of St. Martin in Mainz are skillfully brought...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/7/1936 | See Source »

Doubles--Minnich and Whitman (P) defeated Glidden and Roberts 6-4, 6-4; Rawls and Oclson (P) defeated Bentley and Lowman 6-4, 8-6; Tilden and Martin (P) defeated Helmholz and Wallis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Minor and Freshman Weekend Sports | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

...Rainy Afternoon (Pickford-Lasky) is probably the most complete casual picture ever offered as the first production of a new company. It is abo a kiss in a theatre. Philippe Martin (Fracis Leder) gets seat No.99 instead No. 66 and Mile Pelerin (Ida Lupino)the kiss intended for Yvonne (Countes Liev de Maigret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 4, 1936 | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

Mlle Pelerin makes a disturbance which spreads out of the theatre into the press is heightened with engaging exaggerations until Martin is a figure whom all female. France regards with a happy combination of revulsion and beguilement. He is known as "The Monster," and from the moment in court when he gives in rhapsodic language the reasons for the kiss, his fortune is made. The theatrical manager (Roland Young) who discharged him from a production in which he played the part a train dispatcher now arranges a musical comedy which duplicates the behavior of Philippe on the night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 4, 1936 | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

Previous | 143 | 144 | 145 | 146 | 147 | 148 | 149 | 150 | 151 | 152 | 153 | 154 | 155 | 156 | 157 | 158 | 159 | 160 | 161 | 162 | 163 | Next