Word: packs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When his Contract Bridge Match for the "Championship of the World'' started in Manhattan last month Promoter Michael Strauss Jacobs proudly announced that, on its last evening, the event would be moved into Madison Square Garden, with 52 sandwich men impersonating a pack of cards so that 15,000 spectators could follow the play. True to his word, Promoter Jacobs last week moved the Four Aces, representing the U. S., and their French opponents, captained by Baron Robert de Nexon, into two cubicles at one end of the Garden. At the other end, on a huge platform, sandwich...
Hoffman. Having caught their breath and tired of beating the dead horse of U. S. lawlessness, U. S. editors began looking for a personal Herod to blame for the Lindbergh exile. Most of the editorial pack first turned on plump, young Governor Hoffman, suspected of putting his foot in the Hauptmann case for reasons of politics and publicity. The Newark (N. J.) Evening News flayed him for "appalling meddling." The St. Louis Post-Dispatch declared that even if he were "guiltless of playing politics ... he has at least affronted the elementary proprieties." The Boston Herald snarled at "the brazenly publicized...
...everything but a cheery "No comment." At week's end he declared: "I probably would say something if Colonel Lindbergh personally attributed to me the reason for his leaving the U. S. I won't reply to second-hand passers of information." But by that time the pack were too busy snapping & snarling at each other to pay heed...
...Scotland, one of the dramatic events of 1934. Memorable sequence in that play was the hapless Scottish queen's leave-taking from her lover Bothwell (Philip Merivale). Minus swords and capes to heighten the drama, Miss Hayes as the dumpy little royal matron of Victoria Regina manages to pack an astonishing amount of tragic power into her dismay at Albert's fatal chill...
...missed Fielding Burke's Call Home the Heart (1932) might get through several hands of A Stone Came Rotting without thinking they were sitting in on anything more antisocial than a game of hearts. But sooner or later they will realize that Author Burke's pastoral pack has a dialectic joker in it. A sequel to her first book, A Stone Came Rolling reintroduces Ishma, the hillbilly Judith; her physical but saintly husband Britt, et al. In tone and texture a kind of reincarnation of the works of Gene Stratton Porter, with Rose O'Neill and Fannie...