Word: norman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WASHINGTON--America's roving ambassador, Norman H. Davis, is forsaking the precarious footing of European political intrigue to become national chairman of the Red Cross, President Roosevelt announced today. Davis, 59, and reportedly in poor health, succeeds the late Admiral Cary T. Grayson...
...teams and their managers as announced by Homer D. Peabody, Freshman Class President, are: Wigglesworth and Apley, Charles Clark; Thayer, Mortimer Rayman; Matthews and Grays, Kingdon W. Swayne; Massachusetts, Lionel, and Union, Norman W. Getsinger; Stoughton, Hollis, and Holworthy, Jerry O'Conner; Weld, Straus, and Mower, Lucian Zoll...
...other Boylston prizes, each amounting to $35, went to James Cassels Higgins, Jr. '38, for an excerpt from "Anna Livia Plurabelle," by James Joyce, and to Jonas Norman Muller '40, who gave James Weldon Johnson's "The Creation...
That the gay course of Merrily We Live is always breezy but never aimless is due partly to its Morrie Ryskind-Eric Hatch (My Man Godfrey) pattern, more particularly to the craft of Director Norman McLeod, whose technique of making every character seem important in neatly overlapped situations makes for speedy, clinker-built comedy. A minister's son, handsome, six-foot, 39-year-old Norman McLeod left Oxford to become a World War aviator, left Europe to become an assistant director on Christie comedies. In Hollywood he drew cartoons (as decorations for subtitles), became so proficient with his wiry...
...Minnesota, among the Swedes, Norwegians, Danes, Finns, rich & poor alike, he found a thrifty, hardworking, hospitable, good-natured people, whose few so-called Reds were only followers of peaceable Norman Thomas. His major discovery was that "they are like electric cookstoves and concert violinists. They get hot slowly . . . but when they get hot they're volcanic." In the Little Italics of Manhattan and California he interviewed priests, millionaires, anarchists, labor leaders-all good Americans, who admired Roosevelt and Mussolini as they once admired Washington and Garibaldi. Again he found few authentic Reds, only Latin sound & fury. The central fact...