Word: neil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...delegates a measure asking for a submission of the Prohibition question to State referenda. Hitherto the Legion's Dry element has blocked similar measures by raising a point of order, declaring that Prohibition is not the Legion's business. This time National Commander Ralph T. O'Neil from the bone-Dry State of Kansas was prepared. Banging on the Legion's miniature Liberty Bell with his gavel, said he: "Anticipating that question I have asked the [Legion's] National Judge Advocate [Scott W. Lucas] to advise me whether, in his opinion, the introduction of this...
...along, an inconspicuous mechanical marvel which disgraces no one and will probably make a profit. Joan Crawford's new haircut, which gives the effect of a pale overgrown hedge straggling down the back of her neck, is not as unbecoming as it sounds. Good shots: Joan Crawford and Neil Hamilton (the fiance) dislodging a china vase and waiting for it to crash while it falls on a sofa. Trite shot: a scene of revelry which reaches its peak when Monroe Owsley tries to prove he is sober by walking in a straight line...
...Last week in France died James E. O'Neil, one of the key witnesses in the Teapot Dome suits who fled the U. S. in 1924, lived in affluent exile...
Thus, it was learned last week, pleaded counsel for Publishers Doubleday, Doran & Co. in asking dismissal of a $150,000 libel suit brought in Manhattan by Neil Callahan, onetime reporter for the New York Sun. Callahan claimed that he and his wife, whose name was Hester Robinson, were maliciously portrayed as "Ralph Halloran" and "Rebecca Robishek," leading characters in a book called Rebecca the Wise by Josef Israels II, codefendant...
...base hits--Hines, Howard, Cates, Kettle. Stolen bases--Darling, Meighen. Left on bases--Harvard 10, Andover 4. Bases on balls--off Strong 4, off DeGive 2, off Cates 4. Struck out--by Strong 4, by Cates 5. Passed balls--O'Neil. Wild pitches--DeGive 2. Losing pitcher--DeGive. Umpire--Gardella. Time of game...