Word: saloon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Night of the farewell cruise dinner, Capt. Willmott was not there to play host. Day before, complaining of a stomach ache, he had retired to his cabin. In the dining saloon paper hats bobbed merrily, poppers crackled amid the small extravagances of last-night wine. But Capt. Willmott lay dead, half in, half out of his cabin bath tub, dead, said the ship's doctor, of "acute indigestion and heart attack...
Paris Interlude (MGM). The No. 2 heroine of this picture is a standard cut-out from all Hollywood's style sheets, the loyal girl friend. When in Paris Interlude, Julie (Madge Evans) gets drunk in a saloon, Cassie (Una Merkel) helps her home. When Julie's boy friend Sam (Otto Kruger) flies off for China, Cassie comforts her. When Sam has been reported dead, Cassie tells Julie's nicest suitor (Robert Young) how best to further his cause. True to cinema type, Cassie talks tough and, has no male associates of her own. That...
...Post; of heart disease; in Denver. In Alaska, in 1900, he founded the Ornery and Worthless Men's Club of America. Among members were the late Tex Rickard, Senator Pittman of Nevada, Vice President Garner, Senator Huey Long, the late Governor Rolph of California, all members of the Anti-Saloon League. A close friend of Bonfils, Hoggatt used to amuse him by turning somersaults, slipping his false teeth through his lips and barking like...
Forty-five years ago three good Democratic wards in East Boston were bossed by a saloon-keeping politician named Patrick J. Kennedy. To "P. J." was born a son, Joseph, who went to Harvard and became a baseball player. After graduation in 1912, Joe turned down a job in the big leagues to try his hand in business. He and a friend bought a sightseeing bus for $1,200. The friend drove while Joe barked. They not only paid for their investment, but in the course of three seasons Joe cleared about $5,000. On the strength of that...
...Oxford, Ohio met the 76th general assembly of the United Presbyterian Church, with which the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. last month expressed willingness to merge (TIME, June 11). A candidate for moderator was Dr. Francis Scott McBride, national superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League. The United Presbyterians, however, gave a clear majority to Rev. Dr. John Alvin Orr, 59, suave, well-dressed pastor of Pittsburgh's wealthy First Church and president of that city's Citizens' League. Two days later the assembly voted 123-to-113 against submitting to the 67 presbyteries...