Word: robert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stand Up and Fight (Robert Taylor, Wallace Beery, Florence Rice; TIME...
...emergence of foreign policy as a burning national concern. On this Robert Rice Reynolds considers himself an expert because he has toured the world extensively (efficiently sending postcards to his voters). His ambition to get on the Foreign Relations Committee was great enough so that South Carolina's Jimmy Byrnes, by fixing it, lured his vote away from the Administration's higher figure...
Born. To Evelyn Walker Robinson ("Evie") Robert, 29, beauteous Washington hostess, columnist (Eve's Rib) in the Washington Times (see p. 34); and Lawrence Wood ("Chip") Robert Jr., 51, secretary of the National Democratic Committee; a daughter, their first child; in Manhattan...
...enough to retain the meaning of the original. In the case of Idiot's Delight, this agitation was augmented by the fact that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, after almost deciding that Idiot's Delight was too dangerous to touch, finally not only made it but hired its author, Robert Sherwood, to adapt it himself, and released it just after it had stopped exporting its products to Italy...
...pair of Washington newspapermen has made the Justices of the U. S. Supreme Court more uncomfortable than able, caustic Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen. Their Nine Old Men was a best seller of 1936. Their Washington Merry-Go-Round, political gossip column, rarely misses a chance to plant a tack on a Justice's padded chair. But last week it was the Court's turn to make Pearson and Allen uncomfortable, and they did a thoroughgoing...