Word: seene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the biggest ears and part in the show is Frankie Thomas, 15, a solemn, bushy-haired youth of theatrical parentage who has created a large following in the past five seasons in such plays as Wednesday's Child and Remember the Day. An even younger member of Seen But Not Heard's cast is a puckish 10-year-old named Raymond Roe. In his impersonation of a peewee hypochondriac who gains his end by holding his breath for protracted periods, he rises far above his material, shows a natural aptitude for high comedy...
...secretary of Idaho's other U. S. Senator, James Pinckney Pope, told how his employer had lately been passing through a small Idaho mining town, had seen two storekeeper brothers fistfighting, stopped them with a "burst of eloquence." Their argument was over whether to accept 50,000 shares of new mining stock from a gold prospector in payment of his $1,000 grocery bill. Last week Senator Pope learned that the brothers had taken the slock, had sold...
Last week tall, blond Machinist Weinaug had not yet seen his machine at work in a store. He was in jail awaiting trial on charges of homicide (by pistol...
...when Harry Sheldon started working at Leechburg in a steel mill of old Kirkpatrick & Co., there was no high school at Tarentum, nor had he ever seen the inside of one anywhere else. He got his start in the Episcopal Home for Boys at Lawrenceville, near Pittsburgh, emerging at 14 to a $2 a week job in a machine shop. With Kirkpatrick he worked up first to be a hammer man, then a roller, valuable and well paid. He began wearing gloves to work, drove his own carriage; married, in 1889, May Alice Hicks of Leechburg. He was moved...
...same gentle satire is seen in Spade's handbook on business. Here he is assisted by diagrams, parodies of those we commonly meet in serious treaties on economics, which are extremely ludicrous. But the book does not answer