Word: normans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Strictly Dynamite (RKO) is an uncomplimentary portrait of a radio clown (Jimmy Durante); his partner and mistress (Lupe Velez); his gagwriter (Norman Foster); and the gag-writer's agent. In it Jimmy Durante says '"incredulous" when he means "incredible"; "confederate" when he means "inveterate." The narrative is interrupted at intervals by a telephone repairman who calls up someone he dislikes to say "Nuts...
...year ago in a quarrel with Walter C. Teagle over supporting the Administration's oil policy. To the new Communications Commission he named Eugene O. Sykes and Thad H. Brown, Chairman and Vice Chairman of the now defunct Federal Radio Commission, and added Paul Walker (Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner). Norman Case (onetime Governor of Rhode Island), Irvin Stuart (State Department radio expert). George Henry Payne (journalist). Hampson Gary (Wilson's Minister to Switzerland). The President also appointed the Securities & Exchange Commission, three labor boards and picked William Augustus Ayres, longtime Democratic Representative from Wichita, Kans. to succeed James...
...case for Sir Bernard Spilsbury interest might not have mounted to such feverish heights. Sir Bernard Spilsbury is Britain's living successor to mythical Sherlock Holmes. He specializes in macabre cases in which there seem to be no clues. Who but Sir Bernard could have brought to justice Norman Thorne who hanged his sweetheart and then buried her deep beneath the plowed topsoil of his farm? The latest achievement of Sir Bernard Spilsbury, British readers were reminded by the million last week, was his feat in persuading a jury to send Reginald Hicks to the gallows for holding...
...audience last week the Prime Minister chose that most tactful and sympathetic of men, President Roosevelt's grey and graceful little "Disarmament Ambassador," Norman H. Davis. The chat at No. 10 between Scot MacDonald and Tennesseean Davis made clear that if the scheduled 1935 Naval Conference is held at all, it will be not a Disarmament but an Armament Conference. Somewhat pathetically the Prime Minister uttered Earl Beatty's arguments which are, in a nutshell, that Japan's new truculence and her seizure of Manchukuo make it imperative to strengthen the Royal Navy...
...this time small, sharp Norman Davis, U. S. Ambassador-at-Large, went bustling from group to group trying to patch the quarrel between M. Barthou and the British. Sir John Simon, British Foreign Secretary with whom M. Barthou came to verbal blows fortnight ago, had gone back to London, leaving at Geneva Captain Anthony Eden, the Empire's young, adroit conciliator and "Traveling Salesman of Peace...