Word: seene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wandering ambassador for that border city. At his every appearance in Washington he informs me of the news from the home town that he has gleaned from traveling El Pasoans in every part of the country. He never fails to inquire about every El Pasoan he has ever seen in Washington. I have gone into his side show tent in half a dozen different cities but he has never failed to spot me, no matter how big the crowd, and greet me by name. I have been informed repeatedly of his doing the same for all other El Paso acquaintances...
When the round-faced, squat Prime Minister arrived in Washington he went to the Canadian Legation and saw the press before going to the White House-a procedure that allowed him to be franker with newshawks than if he had seen them afterward. To all suggested topics for discussion at the White House, he replied either that he might bring them up if the spirit moved him, or that he would be glad to discuss them if the President wished to. Only one small slip did he make. Forgetting for the moment that the New Deal has taken many emergency...
...highly enthusiastic about the whole tournament and remarked. "We had the best-looking boys fighting here tonight we've ever had in a University journey." Referee Johnny Brassil, eratwhile arbiter of many of Jack Sharkey's matches said that last night's bouis were the best he had ever seen here, "and they've had Yale here fool...
...from the old play by Fredric Lonsdale, and its theme is really a rather hackneyed one. As the Loews publicity sheet puts it, the heroine "takes London society by storm, is the recipient of proposals of marriage from millionaires and peers;" in fact, the shopgirl's dream. You've seen it done before, but the present cast and Boleslawki's direction make it sufficiently diverting. It is not up to some of its predecessors, but compared to "Dangerous Number" it is brilliant--or will be if seeing "Dangerous Number" first doesn't make you made and spoil...
...cause of the confusion was at once to be seen, for the State was bending its car to the plaint of a Citizen. On this morning a big Irish Policeman, the grey of the ulster set off by his apple-red face, was the State, and he leaned over the side of his traffic box to talk with a man of the street. The latter was a well-dressed fellow, and from the puzzled expressions of the two it was clear that the location of some back street was uncertain in their minds. As we passed beneath the symbol...