Word: robinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week Dancer Argentinita made another try with a concert in Manhattan's Majestic Theatre. This time Manhattanites, finally aware of who she was, thronged the theatre, stamped and yelled, gaped at castanet playing that would have made Gene Krupa sit up, footwork (zapateado) that would have made Bill Robinson's eyes pop. Though Dancer Argentinita is known to be an ardent Spanish Loyalist, Manhattan's Spaniards called an armistice for an evening. Both Leftists and Rightists turned out to give her a big hand...
Also Showing Just Around the Corner (Twentieth Century-Fox). Shirley Temple. Bill Robinson, Franklin Pangborn and Charles Farrell in a gentle little comedy designed to explain the facts of the Depression to the youngest generation and to prove that for the cinema's No. i child actress, box-office oblivion is still far down the road...
Seventeen Eliotmen will make the trip, together with a great horde of Elephant enthusiasts who hope to see the team score its first victory. The starting lineup is: ends Haff and Levin; tackles, A. Robinson and Keller; guards, Melia and Haddon; center, Seidman; quarter-back, Read; halfbacks, Captain Prario and Donahue; fullback, Brew...
...most clear days around noon a statuesque blonde in jodhpurs pops into Washington's Mayflower cocktail lounge. She is Evelyn Walker Robinson ("Evie") Robert and she has tamed one horse and large numbers of New Dealers. Skittish Administration insiders like Charlie Michelson and Marvin McIntyre eat out of her hand. And her adoring husband, Lawrence Wood ("Chip") Robert Jr., is the secretary of the National Democratic Committee...
...York World's Fair grounds at Flushing Meadow Park, L. I., Dr. Wralter O. Robinson of Brooklyn's St. John's University held the first of a series of classes for Fair attendants in "pleasing and effective speech." His aim: "It is not our purpose to make orators of these people, but rather to teach all who shall have a share in publicizing the World's Fair to speak effectively in language as nearly as possible free from defects...