Word: pryor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shawls and woolen scarfs one winter evening to ring the doorbell at the home of a Virginia Congressman. Inside the house a manservant began unwinding the bundle. Out of it came the Secretary of State, General Lewis Cass, born in 1782, seventy-nine years old, whimpering: 'Mr. Pryor, I have been hearing about secession for a long time-and I would not listen. But now I am frightened, sir, frightened!'"A month before Lincoln's inauguration the Confederacy was already under arms. And young Henry Adams wrote to his brother: "No man is fit to take hold...
...mouthed Crooner Rudy Vallée has spread his oleaginous voice on the air waves for Standard Brands Inc. (Fleischmann's Yeast, Royal Gelatin). Their partnership is radio's longest. Radio's first big variety show made Yale-bred Rudy Vallée (real name: Hubert Pryor Vallée) radio's first big-money performer, began radio's first national song craze (I'm Just a Vagabond Lover), first exploited the radio talents of Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy, Alice Faye, Joe Penner, Frances Langford. Its popularity is still impressive, but not so impressive...
...blind men in the U. S. Senate. That evening there was only one, Minnesota's bitter, blatant Thomas David Schall having died of injuries suffered when he was struck by an automobile. One evening last week the Senate lost its second blind man when Oklahoma's Thomas Pryor Gore, no New Dealer, finished fourth in a primary race for the Democratic nomination to his seat...
Pete Stone, speedy left wingman, shared scoring honors with center Austie Harding, each beating goalie Clarke of Framingham on three occasions. The summary: HARVARD 1939 FRAMINGHAM Stone, Miles, Cunningham, l.w. l.w., Carey, Shaughnessy Harding, Jameson, Winsor, c. c., Glover, Haggerty Scaife, Hunnewell, Butcher, r.w. r.w., Pryor, Kimball Houghton, Carstein, Wright, l.d. l.d., Monahan, Guston Fearon, Coburn, Aldrich, r.d. r.d., Slade, Savage Irving, Kerr, g. g., Clarke
...Minute" is a delightful farce starring Roger Pryor and Leila Hyams. Roger undertakes to spend $1,000 a minute for twelve hours, to settle a bet between two plutocrats. A yacht, a race horse, a Duesenberg, a mastiff, an elephant, a Trans-continental airplane, a $30,000 fur coat, and sundry other trivial bring the story to the point where Roger has to have $50,000 to buy a tube of radium (a gift to a hospital) and has a capital of only...