Word: offing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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To Harry Hershfield, Manhattan cartoonist (Abie the Agent), went Charter No. 1 and chairmanship of the New York City chapter of the Grouch Club of America. Grouch Hershfield obligingly posed for news photographers, put his worst face forward (see cut).
Denied a further extension of his four-month alien visitor's permit, rabbity British Earl Bertrand Arthur William Resell, famed libertarian logician, found he must leave the U. S. by year's end. Not anxious for U. S. citizenship, but wishing to qualify for a permanent chair of...
In a Los Angeles hospital lay Georgia Coleman, onetime (1932) Olympic champion diver, whose career was snipped short by infantile paralysis. Badly in need of an operation for a liver ailment, she was too weak to have it, too poor to pay for it. Promoters of the California's...
Cinema's peculiar virtue as an art is that it conquers the limitations of stage and life, ranges wherever man's imagination takes him, unrestrained by time or space or experience. Nobody in the movie business ever realized cinema's possibilities more completely than elusive, gay, acrobatic...
Fairbanks was an ordinary young ham, except for his superior muscles, until one day on the stage in a serious moment he recalled a gag another actor had told him offstage a few minutes before. Against his will, irresistibly, he grinned. The effect was electric. Irresistibly Doug Fairbanks grinned and...