Word: patch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cast are Lois Hall as Gladys--Miss Hall was the Sphinx in "La Machine Infernale"--Edward Streeter '36 as Scraggy Evan the Post, Robert McKee '37 as Owain Flatfish, Betty Ruth Lawrence as Mari Jones, Katherine Young as Mrs. Jones Bakehouse, Stephen Greene '37 as Timothey Yagairnolwen, Howard Patch '38 as Mr. Gas Jones and Agnes Love as Mrs. Resurrection Jones...
...triumphal progress around Greenland's coasts Minister Owen stood as godmother for an Eskimo baby (which, like all Eskimo babies, had a blue patch on its back), wore sealskin trousers (she had "to wiggle about very skillfully to get in"), hung up a world's record ("the northernmost point ever visited by a foreign diplomat"). A commemorative cairn is to be erected on the spot (Upernivik), with inscriptions in English and Eskimo. She ate whale skin ("a most toothsome delicacy") but balked at dried seal intestines. Before a U. S. Coast Guard cutter carried...
...three young married women in Louisville formed an informal literary club, began three novels which they read to each other at meetings. The young women were Alice Hegan Rice, "George Madden Martin" (Mrs. Attwood R. Martin), and Annie Fellows Johnston. Their respective novels were Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, Emmy Lou and The Little Colonel. Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch was released as cinema last autumn (TIME, Oct. 29). Emmy Lou will probably appear in cinema next year...
Upminister workmen saw the Sisters du Bois leap from Pilot Kirton's plane. Hands clasped together, they fell 4,000 ft., landed in a cabbage patch. Jane's wristwatch, its crystal unbroken, still ticked near her corpse...
...nurseries and cradles. In the past year, Baby LeRoy (It's a Gift), Frankie Thomas (Wednesday's Child), Georgie Breakstone (No Greater Glory), Jane Withers (Bright Eyes), Baby Jane (Imitation of Life), David Holt (You Belong to Me), Virginia Weidler (Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch), Freddie Bartholomew (David Copperfield) have earned high-bracket incomes which will cease before they reach their adolescence. Carnival introduces the first baby-carriage Booth of 1935, a solemn, bun-faced 3-year-old named Dickie Walters. Since he is still comparatively inarticulate, Dickie Walters in Carnival is required to do little more...