Word: revelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House, left his followers to wonder if he would try to be re-elected in 1936.* On July 29 in the Bohemian Grove near San Francisco many of the nation's tycoons will caper at the annual Bohemian Club outing. To be his guest at that famed revel Citizen Hoover asked Senator David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania, a bulwark of the G. O. P.'s Old Guard who did yeoman service in the Senate for the White House in 1928-32. Observers guessed that Senator Reed was not going to take a three and a half...
Smiling Faces (Harry Clarke, librettist; Harry Revel, composer; Mack Gordon, lyricist; Lee & Jake Shubert. producers) is notable chiefly for exhibiting Fred Stone as a most generous person. His daughter Paula had the leading female role on tour; Daughter Dorothy, as costar, has the role in Manhattan. Her husband, Charles Collins, has a prominent part. Comedian Stone saves most of his funny remarks for a scene in which he does an imitation of Will Rogers. (Four years ago when Comedian Stone was hurt in an airplane crash, Funnyman Rogers took his place in Three Cheers.) Except for that scene...
...upon the floor, heartened other Soviet wives to dance (badly). From a fox-trot the orchestra switched to a tango, then to a throbbing Cuban rumba. In 20 minutes scores of Comrades and their wives were cavorting like Capitalists. Later there were caviar, French champagne, rich Russian pastries. The revel continued until dawn. Said Premier General Ismet Pasha, on behalf of Turkish Dictator Kemal, "I and the whole Turkish delegation [34]; have an unforgettable impression of the magnificence of our reception...
...Lambeth Conference of bishops of and affiliated with the Church of England, which discreetly approved the movement (TIME, July 14 & Aug. 25). Nonetheless there were several preachers of various denominations among the 200 delegates who attended the convention. Also-present were a few doctors. Conspicuously absent were women who revel in tales of their own childbearing, women too prudish to discuss procreation in any manner, Catholic women obedient to the Pope's denunciation of any hindrance to conception (TIME, Jan. 19). Last week's meeting lacked the vigor of previous conventions. Some speakers interpreted the Pope...
...Norwegian Treasury will also defray the expenses of Fru Anderson's return (triumphal it is hoped) to Oslo. Public sentiment there holds that too long have scalawag husbands found it comparatively easy to leave their faithful wives stranded in Norway while they revel in what one Oslo editor called last week "the easy prosperity and dissolute high life of the States...