Word: partings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...find out how fully the seven counties realized the measure of their improvement, Dr. Pritchard sent to 80,000 voters a report and a ballot. The ballot asked voters whether they were willing to tax themselves 25? per capita to continue their health departments, relieving the Foundation of part of its burden. Last week the votes were counted...
Manhattan members of the Russian Nobility Association were outraged to discover their president, Prince Alexis Obolensky, playing the part of a Soviet Commissar in the musical hit Leave It to Me, under the stage name of Alexis Bolan. Given the choice of quitting office or his job, the Prince said: "I am a professional actor," resigned from the Nobility Association. Said his wife: "It is too bad that some members . . . failed to understand that my husband really is serving the interests of loyal Tsarists ... by making a fool of the character he plays...
Born in Rochester, N. Y. of Irish-Catholic parentage, Barry was graduated from Yale in 1918. At Yale he was part of a literary flowering that also included Stephen Vincent Benét, John Farrar, Thornton Wilder. Later Barry enrolled at Harvard in George Pierce Baker's famed 47 Workshop, went from there to Broadway with his successful Harvard Prize Play, You and I. Married and the father of two young sons, Barry for years lived abroad, now lives in Florida. His good friends include such well-known sophisticates as Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, Donald Ogden Stewart. This fall...
...these sporting accessories are as much a part of Derrydale's business as the hard chairs which another publisher provides to tire unwanted callers. Originally Derrydale headquarters was a cluttered print shop in Manhattan's garment centre. After one visit, Derrydale authors flatly refused to go there. "The smells around a print shop," they objected, "are too exciting...
...Another part of the work of the committee will be to obtain affidavits from citizens of the United States sponsoring the students, to send to immigration officials...