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...just a joke between me and Sullivan, but he made a mountain out of a mole hill and let it get into the papers. Now I've got to get him a horse somewhere. I have a couple of plugs up at the poor farm that sin't doing much, so I guess I'll let him have one of them. The trouble is, though, that I think more of the horse than I do of Sullivan, and I don't want to send it out in the cold to catch pneumonia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bossy Gillis, Newburyport Mayor, Thinks Oath Bill Will End Socialism of Harvard Teachers | 2/26/1936 | See Source »

...When it comes to individual "swing" men, why did you fail to mention other idols of the modern musician, such as the Dorsey Brothers, "Miff" Mole, "Red" Nichols, Vic Burton (drums), "Saxey" Mansfield (tenor sax), Joe Venuti (violin), Irving Brodsky (piano) and Dick McDonough (guitar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 10, 1936 | 2/10/1936 | See Source »

...speech publicly proclaiming a turning point in U. S. history. For 45 minutes he spoke, sometimes allowing his voice to swell in a sonorous diapason, sometimes letting it sink low as he leaned forward confidentially over the desk. In the glare of klieg lights which made the large mole over his left eye stand out in pitiless relief, he turned the pages of his manuscript with shaking fingers. Time & again his visible audience burst into applause, cheers and halloos as if at a political rally. When they did so, without looking down, the President grabbed a glass of water standing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: State of the Union | 1/13/1936 | See Source »

...teach me to play the trumpet and give me his old associate, Miff Mole, as trombonist, I'll be very pleased to swap jobs, income and worries about taxes and expenses with him. And in addition I'll throw in a fine assortment of rejected manuscripts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 7, 1935 | 10/7/1935 | See Source »

...when they are given by Universal's Carl Laemmle Jr. Stubborn about her own affairs, she replies to studio requests to have a crooked tooth in the left side of her mouth straightened by saying she prefers it crooked. Studio officials last autumn persuaded her to have a mole on the left side of her face removed. She disappeared for four days until the mole had completely vanished. In 1931, while she was acting at West Falmouth, Mass., she married a member of the company named Henry Fonda, now appearing in Manhattan in New Faces. They were divorced last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 11, 1934 | 6/11/1934 | See Source »

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