Word: nothingness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Servant trouble last week compounded the normal confusions, stinks and noises of the world's biggest hotel. In the vast Chicago stockyards, a strike of C. I. O. stock handlers left 17,000 cattle and calves, 25,000 hogs, 10,000 sheep without service and the Chicago Livestock Exchange...
Anyone who challenges the accuracy of the Times's Krock, who last spring won a Pulitzer Prize for an interview with Franklin Roosevelt, has indeed made a challenge, but Mr. Hopkins wrote again to the Times, again disowning the quotation. This time Mr. Krock replied: "I saw him [Mr...
Not for nothing is Mr. Ickes called "Honest Harold." When he saw himself given credit for an accidentally erudite coinage not in his 13-lb. dictionary, he promptly disclaimed it. His listeners had misunderstood him, he said. What he had called Mr. Talmadge was not "eneciable" but "ineffable."
The first impression of many a newsreader last week was that poor little Shirley Temple was fried to a crisp; that Madeleine Carroll was dead-not by the bullet of a rival spy, but by incineration; that nothing was left of Leo Carrillo but his accent; that Alice Brady, Virginia...
In 1935, after spending six months in Hollywood doing nothing, Pascal left in disgust. He arrived in London and out of a clear sky called Playwright Shaw, whom he had never met. Pascal said he wanted to produce Shaw's plays.