Word: misses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cynics who believe that every Senate investigation is a scandal hunt, that Senatorial inquisitors miss no opportunity to make a headline, were last week surprised and shocked at the backwardness of Senator Gerald Nye's munitions committee in coming forward with its facts on President Roosevelt's second son. The Nye committee had spent months blackguarding the du Fonts, Britain's late George V, a handful of Latin American dignitaries, Woodrow Wilson and the House of Morgan. But not until last week did the press smoke out of its files a two-year-old secret about Elliott...
...father the Duke of York who frequently fly in the same plane, readers of the London Sunday Times conned with interest last week an account of the education now projected for Her Royal Highness. According to the Sunday Times she will continue to study at home under Miss Crawford and other tutors because "there is the difficulty of choosing a suitable school without causing great jealousy." "Another Queen Elizabeth on the Throne," continued the Sunday Times, "will, in this complex modern world, have to have a deep knowledge of a variety of subjects that are not taught in ordinary girls...
...which he sneered: "Most Reverend Thomas Davidson ... if you tell too many lies, the Communist International will appoint two of its experts to write a history of the archbishopric of Canterbury which will make you feel sorry for yourself. . . . [When Henry VIII] had cast his eye on a simpering miss named Anne Boleyn, the Archbishop of Canterbury decided that all the Church dogmas and all the rulings of its head, the Pope of Rome, might make a comfortable pillow for his lascivious king. Even when Henry VIII got tired of Anne Boleyn and decided to have her put to death...
...Miss Temple is seven. Still apparently untouched by the years - three since her cinema career began - she steals scenes from two oldtime stage mimes, dances, sings, mugs shamelessly on Little Eva's death bed. Kindest shot: the back of Frank Morgan's head when Shirley, her arms twined around his neck, is sobbing out an embarrassingly sentimental ballad called Picture Me Without...
Masonite was not named for the benefit of the building trade but for the inventor of the basic processes-William Horatio Mason. A broad-shouldered, white-haired Virginia-born engineer who spent 17 of his 59 years working for the late Thomas Alva Edison, Inventor Mason went to Laurel, Miss, after the War to work out a method of removing and recovering rosin and turpentine from Southern pine lumber. He was more impressed by the waste of wood in normal sawmill operations, however, than by the possibilities of naval stores. As the price of naval stores declined after the post...