Word: returning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Galloping down Mass. Avenue expecting to find cheering celebrants grouped around the Revolutionary flagpole in the Square, William Dawes, the Cambridge Paul Revere missed his cue yesterday. The motley crowd of Patriots' Day paraders had not arrived, and so, making a detour, had to return a second time to receive his deserved ovation...
...York-to-Hollywood telephone calls, Duncan luxuriates in the simple life at the Schwartzes', drinking water instead of whiskey before breakfast and sleeping in a daybed with Papa Schwartz. When Camille misapprehends the purpose of his lovemaking, he finds himself engaged to her. His extrication and the return of Camille to the husky footballer who really loves her provide further complications which, although not unfalteringly hilarious, disclose an unexpected flair for swashbuckling satire on the part of reedy Actor George Curzon, who last year played a somewhat insipid Parnell in Parmil, an unpleasant maniac in Black Limelight. Apparently...
...Brand new was the most squirm-making act of all, a Hopi Indian snake dance. While portly Col. Tim McCoy explains that the idea is to placate the snakes because in them rest spirits who can return to the rain gods and intercede for a good corn crop, eight painted, breech-clouted Hopis trail around in a circle holding one or two snakes apiece, while a man in the centre waves a bunch of feathers to divert the serpents' attention. As a public precaution, the snakes' fangs have been removed or are kept folded back by little buckskin...
...Oris Paxton Van Sweringen (TIME, Nov. 30), he interviewed the aging fruit-jar maker about his plans for that corporate key to the $3,000,000,000 rail and real-estate empire. And 28-year-old Newshawk Hadley left with an invitation from 74-year-old Mr. Ball to return any time he needed assistance on a story...
...poor time to return to the U. S. In Depression times, even lavish Manhattan publishers had no use for a non-commercial author. Alec had to take his family to live with his in-laws, narrow middle-class people in a narrow middle-class New Jersey suburb. He quickly found that the sacrifice of his talent and a willingness to work at anything were not sufficient qualifications. At last he got work as a farmhand. He was not very good at it, worked with a chip on his shoulder that eventually lost him the job. Then he took anything...