Word: mister
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Irving Thalberg, Gary Cooper & wife. All donned costumes (by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) of the year of the great man's birth. Men paraded about as Union or Confederate officers. Women wore crinoline gowns, hoop skirts. At the birthday dinner an enormous cake, wired for sound, sang out: "Dear Mister Hearst: This is your birthday cake speaking to you to give you the greetings of your friends assembled here and your friends all over the world to wish you happiness this...
...been a long time since anything has cheered one quite as much as the news that Joseph E. Widener-'Mister' Widener, as we intimates call him around the horse parks-has been entertaining the Earl and Countess of Athlone at Palm Beach. Mister Widener is as plain as an old diamond tiara and as Democratic as the Mikado himself...
There's a light tonight that's shining-It's his light so bright that's shining-O'er the land of the free, And the lands o'er the sea, Oh he lights the way-Mister Thomas A.-Edison miracle...
...Mister Percy-Only one of Lazarus Straus's three sons stayed with Macy's- Isidor. Nathan branched out for himself. Oscar was thrice Minister to Turkey and Theodore Roosevelt's Secretary of Commerce & Labor-first Jew to sit in the Cabinet. It was Isidor's three sons who pushed Macy's sales to nearly $100,000,000 in 1929 and held them to $80,000,000 last year. The eldest grandson, Jesse Isidor, who insists on having his middle name spelled out and who contributed heavily to the Democratic campaign, resigned as president to serve...
After contrasting such empire-builders as "Mister Harriman." "Mister Vanderbilt," J. P. Morgan. "Mister Mellon" and Bruce Barton with Trailblazer Meriwether Lewis, Poet MacLeish concludes: You have just beheld the Makers making America: They screwed her scrawny and gaunt with their seven-year panics: They bought her back on their mortgages old-whore-cheap: They fattened their bonds at her breasts till the thin blood ran from them: Men have forgotten how full and clear and deep The Yellowstone moved on the gravel and grass grew When the land lay waiting for her westward people...