Word: phobias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sued for Divorce. William Ellery Leonard, 60, poet (Two Lives), longtime professor at the University of Wisconsin; by Mrs. Grace Golden Leonard. 28, his third wife; in Madison, Wis. Grounds: cruelty. Celebrated for his distance-phobia, he would not travel more than five blocks from his house...
...seen her not only minus the disguise but minus most of her clothing. Miss Rogers begins to cure herself. Stung by Brent's superciliousness toward actresses, she takes him to see one of her pictures in a village cinema, makes an enthusiastic personal appearance before she realizes her phobia is gone. Remarkable sight: Miss Rogers in black wig, spectacles, false teeth, which make her so thoroughly unattractive that RKO's publicity department forebore to release "stills"' of her thus disguised...
Because Publisher George Baker Longan has a snake phobia, it is many a long year since the Kansas City Star has printed news of reptiles (TIME, Aug. 18, 1930). When references to snakes are unavoidable, the Star generally compromises by identifying them as "moving objects." Last week Star editors were horrified when a syndicate comic strip, "Moon Mullins," revealed Uncle Willie's wife Mamie as a onetime snake charmer, showed her performing in a freak show with a huge serpent coiled around her neck. Hastily the resourceful Star substituted non-serpentine "Moon Mullins" strips from...
...Washington. D. C. arriviste whose ebullient social career is based upon his chain of 50 blue-&-gold Palace Laundries, each plastered with the slogan "Long Live Linen." Laundryman Marshall sleeps until noon every day, takes a nap before dinner, stays up most of the night, has a dirt phobia, orders coffee before soup when dining out, arrives late for all engagements, laughs in a deafening high-pitched guffaw. The oddities of Mr. Marshall's behavior do not argue lack of acumen. Onetime partner in a small-time vaudeville act with Cinema Director Monta Bell, he built up his string...
...Stop Sinclair movement," wrote Scripps-Howard Newshawk Max Stern, "has become a phobia, lacking humor, fairness and even a sense of reality." He reported a blizzard of anti-Sinclair pamphlets in Los Angeles. One showed a lurid Russian figure waving a red flag over California. Another was an appeal by a non-existent "Citizens' Co-operative Relief Committee" for donations of clothing, food, room space and money for the 1,500,000 new citizens expected to arrive in the State because of the Sinclair Utopia. A fake "Young People's Communist League" leaflet bore the party hammer-&- sickle...