Word: roome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crowd that packed the small court room gasped with surprise when the Prosecutor demanded the death penalty for "military rebellion through cooperation with the Republic." They had thought that the mild Professor's efforts for peace would excuse his sins. Two days later the court announced its decision: imprisonment for 30 years, a sentence which later can be easily shortened or suspended...
Because the late Financier Otto Herman Kahn's 86-room castle in Cold Spring Harbor, L. I. was too big for most present-day buyers' boots, the splendiferous estate went for a song ($100,000) to New York City's Department of Sanitation. Last week, renamed Sanita Lodge, it was thrown open to 22,000 street cleaners on vacation...
Original director of the Workshop was Irving Reis, a swarthy, jittery onetime control-room engineer who thought the production, not the play, was the thing, and who sweated with oscillators, electrical filters, echo chambers to produce some of the most exciting sounds ever put on the air-Gulliver's voice, the witches in Macbeth, footsteps of gods, the sound of fog, a nuts-driving dissonance of bells, the feeling of going under ether. When Director Reis left the Workshop-which also graduated an even more celebrated member, Orson Welles-it was run for a time by handsome, long-armed...
...King Edward VIII were her devoted fans. Norway's moosey King Haakon took to telegraphing her before every public appearance. Germany's Crown Prince Wilhelm called her to him after a performance and impulsively gave her his diamond stickpin, adorned with the Hohenzollern crest. She had a room filled with some 100 gold and silver mugs, gold placques, decorations, certificates. Sonja had almost everything she wanted-but not quite everything. She had a consuming desire to be a movie star...
...saddest men in the court room was little Felipe Abreu ("Goodfellow Philip") Buencamino, 53, whip of the Philippine Assembly, longtime confidant of President Quezon. Because he offered to cooperate in the bond redemption plan for an alleged $50,000, he was denounced by the Federal prosecutor as the "Judas of the Philippine Assembly." Leaving last December to face the SEC inquiry, he told loyal followers: "I wish to break a little confidence which the Chief Executive (Quezon) has told me. ... He said he . . . did not believe me guilty of the accusations laid at my door." Last week he was convicted...