Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nearer to "Moscow" than is M. Blum. Earthy, cigar-chewing, big-eating Léon Jouhaux is out for what he can get, whereas intellectual, nervous, lean Léon Blum is akin in spirit to the Roosevelt New Deal and is always advocating in his newspaper that Mr. Roosevelt do something or say something epochal...
...Channel steamer going over to France last week Prime Minister & Mrs. Chamberlain and Foreign Secretary & Lady Halifax had a thoroughgoing tossing about. On deck Mr. Chamberlain nearly did a split and the long lean Foreign Secretary got a buffeting (see cut). The diplomatic traveling companions had an easier trip back two days later, the day the King signed his parchment. It was, of course, the Prime Minister who "advised" the Sovereign to demobilize the Fleet. His Majesty did so presumably because Mr. Chamberlain was satisfied, after talking in Paris with Premier Edouard Daladier (see p. 21), that this European emergency...
After 22 minutes of talk, during which the four reportedly agreed that the "exiled" Duke would return to England in January, he and his lady in March, that he might take on some governor-generalship. Mr. Chamberlain and Lord Halifax withdrew. They returned to the British Embassy where their ladies had been awaiting them...
...time or another. Playwright Shaw's most famed reply to such offers was that which he made to Sam Goldwyn. When the most egregious producer in the world assured him that his work would be treated not as a commercial venture but as art, Shaw answered, "Mr. Goldwyn, you are interested in art and I am interested in money...
...Mass. Now, at 33, Editor Nichols is a confirmed Far Westerner, likes nothing better than to print pictures of cacti and donkeys in the columns of reader-letters which he compiles every month under the heading "Sunset Gold." He gets some fairly flavorsome inquiries from his readership. Samples: "Dear Mr. Editor, I am troubled with buzzards. How can I shoo them out of my eucalyptus grove...