Word: porches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little glimpse of the White family, battling a picayune crisis. Mother White (Lois Wilson) is so devoted to her children that she forgets about Father White (Frank Morgan) except when the furnace gets too low. When the children give a party he has to sit out on the porch. He is cooling his heels there one evening when Alice Vaile (Binnie Barnes), his onetime secretary, finds him. Presently, Father White and Alice Vaile are involved in an innocuous intrigue. On Thursday nights, he tells Mother White that he is going to the Lodge but goes instead to Alice Vaile...
...Cincinnati, one of the ablest Roman Catholic prelates in the Midwest, took the lead in forming the Legion of Decency to boycott pictures considered immoral or obscene (TIME, June ii). One day last week the benign, grey-haired Archbishop sat in white cassock and red skullcap on the porch of his Cincinnati suburban residence. With him sat the bishops of Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Los Angeles, members of his committee running the Legion. They had said mass, conferred at length. So effective had the boycott become that two potent cinemamen, Joseph I. Breen of Hollywood and Martin Quigley of Manhattan...
What Archbishop McNicholas was able to announce on his porch last week was that, as a direct result of the Legion of Decency's campaign, the producers' jury would be abolished. Henceforth Censor Breen's staff will be increased, his powers widened so that his edicts can be vetoed only by the directors of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America. For any producer to assemble these gentlemen in executive session will be an expensive and lengthy...
...night in filling stations, farms, hot dog stands. Chesapeake Bay shipping was partially paralyzed. The Eastern Shore of Maryland lay buried under a foot of snow. The gale lashed its angry tail when it reached Washington, ripped a huge hanging lantern out of the White House porch. In northern Florida, the storm threatened to wreck the citrus fruit crop with subfreezing temperatures at Jacksonville...
Unable to attract neighbors we spent a miserable evening out on the cold porch. Finally my wife who apparently was not as ill as I managed to reach the phone and telephoned a doctor. He soon came with a supply of Methylene Blue which is a newly discovered remedy for this poisoning heretofore unremediable. He had learned of this discovery through reading TIME, and admitted this to me since I also had read of this cure (TIME...