Word: rollin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kill their unwanted babies. The one prohibition that has really hurt the tourist trade has been that of taking monkey-toed Tahitian girls out of their pareus and putting them into cheap print dresses. Last week this matter reached Paris and French Minister of Colonies Louis Rollin, a Parisian who has lately been preaching cooperation with the colonies, for the sake of French exports...
...decided that the Occident's spurious "Tahitian pareos" are far more indecent than the Tahitians' pareus. If socialites may wear the one on the beaches of Florida (see cut) the Polynesians may wear the other in the landscape it was made for. Brusquely last week Minister Rollin rescinded the regulation against pareus in Papeete...
...Things have now reached the stage," wrote Consul Rollin R. Winslow at Trieste, Italy, "where cream cannot longer be purchased for coffee, when eggs must be used sparingly, when cigarets must be purchased only on rare occasions, when threadbare clothing must suffice, and when any attempt to reciprocate social courtesies unavoidably received at the hands of local officials . . . is remotely out of the question...
...inspect the tenements and help launch a prospective Housing Authority, a progressive Harvard graduate and one-time Assemblyman: Langdon W. Post, son-in-law of Rollin Kirby whose slashing cartoons in the World-Telegram helped throw the Tammany Tiger into the ashcan...
...World-Telegram's campaign to elect LaGuardia started in earnest the day he got the nomination. Every possible bit of political color and prejudice was thrown into the news reports. Everything except the municipal election promptly subsided on the editorial page. The thundering oratory of Cartoonist Rollin Kirby's daily drawings had only one subject during the last four weeks of the campaign...