Word: simon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general impression has gotten about that Ed Wynn is quite a card. "Simple Simon," now at the Shubert, was evidently written for the sole purpose of allowing him to maintain that reputation, for the perfect fool is on the stage most of the time enlivening a rather preposterous musical comedy with bits of gay bandinage and sly drollery...
...like Ed Wynn, and you're a cad if you don't, you had better see "Simple Simon." He is, together with Joc Cook, one of those rare souls whom age can not wither...
Confirmed by St. George's in his leader ship, Stanley Baldwin stands to be further strengthened, perhaps this week, by the rumored decision of Sir John Simon to quit the Liberal Party and join the Con servative. Next to David Lloyd George, Sir John is the leading Liberal. Should he desert, Mr. Lloyd George was expected last week to throw in his lot with James Ramsay MacDonald, enter a formal "Lib-Lab Coalition Cabinet." Mr. MacDonald, for obvious reasons, was understood to want Mr. Lloyd George to take the minis try concerned with unemployment. But the Welshman continues to fancy...
Mild, sandy-haired little President Simon Strousse Baker of Washington & Jefferson college (Washington, Pa.) was about to conduct chapel one morning last week. As he finished reading an announcement, all but a scant dozen of his 432 students got up and marched out. They were striking. More than 300 of them had signed a petition demanding President Baker's removal, to be presented to the W. & J. Board of Trustees this week...
...undersurface irregularities of the ice. Much more important are other outside devices: a conning tower surmounted by a circular saw capable of cutting through 13 ft. of ice; and two thin tubes which, in case the boat is frozen under deep ice, can drill upward 100 ft. to air. Simon Lake, submarine inventor of Stratford, Conn, designed all these devices...