Word: sloe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jamaica Inn is the somewhat free rending of Daphne Du Maurier's best-seller of the same name. It tells about the few but feverish days Mary Yellen (lank, pale-faced, sloe-eyed Maureen O'Hara) passed with her Aunt Patience at a creepy Cornish inn, until kidnapped by Squire Pengallon who later jumps from a yardarm, kills himself...
Hotel Imperial (Paramount). Sloe-eyed Isa Miranda of Italy, who unfortunately got to Hollywood about ten years after Marlene Dietrich, going through her preliminary workout in a spy melodrama...
Divorced. Dorothy Lamour (real name: Dorothy Slaton), 24, sloe-eyed cinemactress; by Herbie Kay (real name: Herbert D. Kaumeyer), 30, sweet jazzband leader; in Chicago. Grounds: desertion...
...aplomb of His Majesty King Ananda Mahidol of Siam, aged 13, was first manifest two years ago when the snub-nosed, sloe-eyed little monarch requested a franc from a cameraman for chocolate before he would pose at his private school in Switzerland. The photographer demurred: "Chocolate might give Your Majesty a stomach ache." To which King Ananda majestically replied: "I never permit myself to become stomach-ached." The cameraman paid...
...zaro Cárdenas' Government failing to broadcast this news for home consumption was that simultaneously in Mexico City was convening the first Latin-American Labor Conference, which opened with many a sharp cry against "Nazi and Fascist penetration of Latin America." Host to the conference was ascetic, sloe-eyed Vicente Lombardo Toledano, president of the CTM (Confederation of Mexican Workers). Only a few months ago in Manhattan, Laborite Lombardo had professed himself certain that the Government of which his 1,000,000 workers are a keystone would never dream of bartering its oil with dictatorships. However, none...