Word: pan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Presidential pup, Laddie Buck, Airedale, was rechristened Paul Pry by Mrs. Coolidge. He now alliterates with his Wire-Haired companion, Peter Pan...
...individual who knows Carolina only as described in the tin-pan " mammy" songs, this primitive study of mountain people will be a beneficial surprise...
...distinct qualities: a feeling for the sweep and power of dramatic passion and an ability to analyze it- always cynically. It was interesting to watch him the other evening with Charlie Chaplin-Chaplin, mobile, eager, gay, as vivid as a flame and as naive as Peter Pan, yet somehow as subtle as life itself; Somerset Maugham, bending toward him, quiet, dark, reserved, cynical, observant, interpretative. They are both geniuses-they almost represent the two types of genius-spontaneous creation of life and analytical sounding of the human mind...
...White House, saying: " We read that even in the days of Abraham the keeping and tending of flocks and herds was not new, but was well established. Your presence here indicates especially the importance that this industry has attained. . . ." As the President spoke Laddie Buck and Peter Pan, Presidential terriers, sent up a duet of yelps from their kennels immediately beneath the south portico. William Jackson, Negro kennel master, silenced one of them, but the other continued his serenade...
...weary of always having to ask their husbands for another dollar for the milkman, demand a 50-50 split of the family income, if they have to strike for it. They do strike. The husbands, left alone, get egg all over the place and forget to empty the icebox pan. After much farcing the happy reconciliation arrives. Acceptable amusement, demonstrating Miss Roberta Arnold's fine comedy sense throughout. Oh, yes- it was written by Guy Bolton-and it's a nice, clean play...