Word: newport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Marx Bros. At The Circus (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) checks the recent decline in Marx Brothers' pictures with two of their fastest, funniest sequences-a riotous Newport society and circus climax, and Groucho doing a combination rumba, tango and nautch dance with one pant leg kitten-ishly hoisted while he sings of his tattooed lost love, Lydia that Encyclopedia...
...comes to all Navy men at 64, often as cruelly and as indiscriminately as Death, retirement last week beached the old Admiral. Hobbyless, Harry Yarnell settled down to read books on the Orient, twiddle his brown thumbs, watch the sailboats off Newport...
...Escadrille, was killed in action; in 1934, he bought the big sloop Weetamoe for the America's Cup defense, was soundly beaten by both Yankee and Rainbow; besides a fox-hunting estate in Pau, France, he owns a Paris town house, the $2,000,000 "Marble Palace" in Newport, R. I., the 1,000-acre, many-roomed "Princemere" in Pride's Crossing, Mass.; in 1933 he offered to Franklin Roosevelt a plan for reorganizing U. S. railroads into seven regional systems, for a claimed saving of $743,000,000 annually, saw it thrown out because it would involve...
...proclamation of Franklin Roosevelt have the right to be peacefully present in neutral U. S. waters, refuel at U. S. ports, go peacefully home. Germany's famed Deutschland in World War I twice dodged the British and crossed to the U. S. Its U-53 put up at Newport, R. I. just before it sank six foreign merchantmen off Nantucket...
...Newport News, Va. one noon last week Anna Eleanor Roosevelt cracked a bottle of U. S. champagne over the steel prow of the biggest, costliest (34,000-ton, $17,000,000) passenger ship ever made in the U. S., christened her America. As 30,000 well-wishers gave a lusty cheer, America glided sedately down ways slicked with 45,000 Ibs. of grease. Proudest man there was Chairman of the Maritime Commission Rear Admiral Emory Scott ("Jerry") Land, under whose supervision United States Lines' big* liner had been constructed. At scoffers he scoffed: "For the dogmatic and somewhat cynical...