Word: seene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reynolds of Asheville, who is seen oftener than any other member in the Senate gymnasium, who has been married four times in his 51 years. Generally credited with being the best actor in the Senate, Senator Reynolds last week continued unperturbed on his gregarious and convivial way about the capital, because in the kind of politics he plays, embarrassing letters cut little ice. Bob Reynolds won his first campaign in 1910 for prosecuting attorney by going into the mountains astride an old mare with two huge saddlebags stuffed with red, white & blue striped peppermint candy which he distributed to children...
...Leftist Daily Worker. "Is the Censor's job that of self-appointed protector of the Cabinet?" The liberal News Chronicle reproduced photographs from the film, cried: "CENSOR HAS DELETED WHAT THE WHOLE WORLD KNOWS!" Less agitated was the arch-conservative Morning Post, whose editor had evidently not seen the film : "Two reservations occur to the impartial mind. First, any film out of America dealing with British policy and action is likely to be colored with a strong anti-British twist, for in the United States this country is always in the wrong. Secondly, peace is questionably served by pictures...
...well-cared-for grounds of the British Embassy in Washington one day last week a gardener noticed a great number of odd insects among the flowers and shrubs. He had never seen any creatures like these in England. They were a dingy brownish black, with spiny forelegs and large, staring eyes. Their legs were orange and their wings, which spread three inches when open, bore dark markings resembling the letter "W." The gardener took news of his discovery to plump, grey-haired Lady Lindsay, wife of moose-tall Ambassador Sir Ronald Lindsay. Lady Lindsay suggested telephoning to the Department...
DAYS OF WRATH - André Malraux - Random House ($1.75). New authors, like clouds no bigger than a man's hand, appear frequently on the literary horizon, and never lack for meteorologists to predict their growth into the greatest storm yet seen. André Malraux is such a cloud. Before he swam into U. S. ken, transatlantic reports from his native France indicated that his thunder & lightning had awed many a seasoned observer there, and that the hailstones he had begun to pour down were of a majestic size and aspect unparalleled. When his Man's Fate (TIME, June...
...When the newshawk replied: "Six dollars," Oscar drawled, "Well, the rate for lying is not very high in America. That's all I wished to ascertain. Good day." Back in Manhattan, he annoyed Fifth Avenue dandies by asserting that the only well-dressed men he had seen in the U. S. were the Western miners. Oscar Wilde failed to change...