Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After all-dear sophisticated TIME-Mr. Errol Flynn is one of those rare souls, who does not have to act, to have the feminine population positively swooning at his feet! All he has to do is-be Errol Flynn-he simply shouts masculine appeal so shame on your severe criticism of The Private Lives of Elizabeth & Essex [TIME, Nov. 13]. Accent on sex-Errol Flynn...
...expert is this Mr. Malaprop that for years the press room has designated one man to keep up-to-date a compendium of McSheehyisms. Culled at random, we offer (all of these delivered from the floor in public meetings of the Board of Supervisors...
...reaction to Russia's move. At the White House the President conferred with Statesmen Hull and Welles, spent 45 minutes with Finnish Minister Hjalmar Procope. All day reports of Russian bombings of Helsinki came to the State Department from the U.S. Minister to Finland. At 6 p.m. Mr. Hull got word that in a raid of 15 planes, bombs had fallen near the U. S. legation, that buildings within three blocks were in flames...
...Minister was a landmark in the course of U. S.-Chinese relations. At a vast, formal tea at the Grand Hotel in beautiful Tsingtao, the city's acting mayor rose, rustled his black silk gown, made a pretty, set speech in Chinese. An interpreter laboriously translated. Then Mr. Johnson got up, paused, bowed to hosts and guests. The audience set itself for a weary, long-winded speech which most of them would not understand. With a grin, Nelson Johnson proposed a toast and made a short speech in perfect Mandarin. From then on, he had no need of paper...
...same mood are The March of Time, an essay on war, and "The Amazing Mr. Williams," a light but also bloody murder mystery...