Word: patriarch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Laugh, win friends, do as you please! Why grub for gold when "You Can't Take It With You?" Thus speaks Grandpa Vanderhof, who, when entering his office one day, hearkens to his own words, turns on his heel, and never goes to work again; who is the patriarch of the maddest and merriest household establishment ever on exhibition. By the adequate light of a firmament of stars, Frank Capra has depicted well the story of the Vanderhofs, with their fire-works, ballet-dancing, xylophones, and discus-throwers. His touch has provided healthy humor in abundance and a dash...
...Galatz, Rumania, from Warsaw suddenly traveled Polish Foreign Minister Colonel Josef Beck seeking audience with King Carol to urge Hungary's claims. He was received coldly. Soon afterward His Majesty and Premier Patriarch Miron Cristea let the Rumanian censorship pass news that the Pole "achieved nothing that he had sought...
Walter Damrosch (Fri. 2 p. m. NBC-Blue), in 60 minutes of Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Wagner. Grainger, Tchaikowsky and others, returns for his eleventh successive season as patriarch of classical music educators...
...sold the Youngs town Telegram to the Vindicator, the chain's hold on Ohio began to weaken. Ohio was the birthplace of the late Edward Willys Scripps's great journalistic venture. Of its six once prosperous Ohio dailies, Scripps-Howard now has but three: the Cleveland Press, patriarch of the chain, the Cincinnati Post, the Columbus Citizen...
...William Tweed who was locked behind bars in 1873 for negligence and misconduct in office. Nor has he ever held a job as exalted as Tammany Mayor James J. Walker, who resigned under fire from Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932. But, running his district like a patriarch for a quarter-century, passing out countless Christmas turkeys and good jobs at his Monongahela Democratic Club, he has been a potent voice in Tammany's inner councils, was shrewd enough to make with Franklin Roosevelt an early peace which assured his district a healthy share of New Deal patronage...