Word: propsed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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*Hollywood's Columbia Pictures, however, once imported from Texas 200 fireflies as atmosphere props for a scene in a Grace Moore picture, and these were so vigorous on arrival that they got into the wrong places (literally including the director's hair), spoiled scenes by indiscriminate flashing, had...
No mediocrity, but a shrewd, hard-working careerist was Claude Swanson. A son of Reconstruction, he worked and borrowed his way through college and University of Virginia's law school. He made money as a country lawyer, ran a country newspaper on the side. After twelve years in the...
The Head of the University Police revealed that his men had confiscated the "props" when the girls were discovered clambering over the University Hall statue in the rosy hour before dawn. The girls had been released, but the cap, gown, hoop, a Wellesley banner, and a large violet "W" were...
The German, Russian, Austro-Hungarian Empires, under whose political organizations most Europeans lived, were swallowed up in the cataclysm-the Austrian ministry appointed for liquidation found the Empire had disappeared before it could map its program. With them went bureaucrats, ruling cliques, political leaders, military castes, police functionaries, armies of...
Dean Cornwell (47), learned illustration under Pyle-Pupil Harvey Dunn and about 1916 got a free hand from the late Editor Ray Long to become Red Book's (later Cosmopolitan's) pride and joy. His illustrations for such fictioneers as Blasco Ibanez, E. M. Hull, Arthur Somers Roche...