Word: rolande
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...school superintendents then persuaded President Hoover to request all the 48 Governors to have their school superintendents select a boy and girl "of at least grammar school age and mentally adapted to the test," send them to Washington. All except Washington's Governor Roland H. Hartley complied. Governor Hartley said: "One of America's alarming problems is the mounting cost of public education. . . . The thought of adding to the unbearable burden by the addition of talking movies ... is inconceivable. . . . Innovations already introduced have undermined the quality of education . . . amply proved the policy of spoon feeding...
...seem an Arcadian adventure. Nonetheless, it is hilariously funny comedy of a sort rarely seen in cinema. It tells a story in which the chief characters are a scatter-brained girl (Jeannette MacDonald), her husband, who is a rowdy millionaire from Wyoming (Victor McLaglen), another millionaire who remains intoxicated (Roland Young), and the second millionaire's butler. The two millionaires are engaged in a wholly ridiculous struggle for 50 shares of valuable stock. The fact that the story makes no sense at all adds immeasurably to its gaiety since all the characters seem well aware of this...
...depraved but sunny personality, Roland Young orders his butler to get a captain for his yacht, says: "Get one who can dance the horn-pipe." Sly, peremptory and puzzled he makes love to his cook in a squeaky voice, smashes his possessions so constantly that when he falls into a stupor his servants put some chinaware beside him for him to break when he wakes up. Indignant at the captain, the drunkard orders four servants to throw him out, and mounts a chair, clapping his hands & popeyed with excitement, to see them do it. When he learns that his cook...
Married. Sarah Stires Wood, daughter of President Robert Elkington Wood of Sears, Roebuck & Co.; and James Roland Addington, Chicago socialite; in Highland Park, Ill., by the Rev. Ernest M. Stires. Bishop of Long Island, uncle of the bride...
...alumni luncheon, where he read a letter of congratulation from President Hoover and where another Morgan man talked: Vernon Munroe, president of Exeter's General Alumni Association. As Mr. Lamont looked around the tables, he saw such alumni as Senator George Higgins Moses (New Hampshire), '87, Roland William Boyden, '81, Bernard Walton Trafford, '89, and George Arthur Plimpton...