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...Overman, North Carolina's junior Senator, protested. "The men who testified were responsible and high-toned," he said. But Senator Heflin, who yields to no man for responsibility or "high tone," roared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Brown Derby | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

...live with him en trois. At the end they had retreated to other, less complicated amorous arrangements, and he was looking up telephone numbers in the faithful old notebook which had been waiting quietly the entangled while. All this is clumsy; seldom witty; always eminently well played by Lynne Overman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 5, 1927 | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

...advised Producer John Golden to take this play to Manhattan. It concerns a lisping tattletale in trousers, who so irks a houseful of guests that the Chief of Police himself yields to an itch to plug the stream of slander with a bullet. Unfortunately the shot misses. Actor Lynne Overman burlesqued his role of wag-tongue -which is about all that could be done with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: May 2, 1927 | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

...Senator Overman of North Carolina, a Democrat, echoed Mr. Bingham from another angle: "If the right to reject a Senator had been followed, there would not have been a Southern Senator on the floor in the days following the Civil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Divine Right! | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

Hugo L. Black of Alabama Senator Thaddeus H. Caraway of Arkansas Senator Duncan U. Fletcher of Florida Senator Walter F. George of Georgia Senator Edwin S. Broussard of Louisiana Senator Lee S. Overman of North Carolina Senator Ellison D. Smith of South Carolina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: To the Polls | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

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