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...Tammany, it would be a direct affront and an indication of his distrust of all that had to do with the organization. The result would probably be a breach between them. And since Roosevelt needs all the support his political parent can offer in the coming election, such a "snub" might prove disastrous...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROOSEVELT AND TAMMANY | 2/27/1932 | See Source »

...dingle, dale, gulch, dell, vale or gully? Father, pa, pop, popper, pappy, dad or daddy? Has a cherry a seed,.stone or pit? These things you may be asked if you live in New England and if during the next 15 months you do not deliberately snub or elude the inquisitive gentleman who represents the American Council of Learned Societies. Armed with a list of 1,000 questions, he will be combing the countryside, quizzing housewives, laborers, farmers, bankers, fisherfolk. To compile a mighty Linguistic Atlas of the U.S., first of its kind,* he and six other field workers left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Dialect Atlas | 8/31/1931 | See Source »

...Author. Stuart Chase, 43, a moody-looking, brown-skinned, snub-nosed man with strong opinions and a flair for eye-catching phraseology, comes from New England but talks more like a Southerner. A Harvardman, he went from college to his father's Boston accounting office. But he did not like accounting; after the War he went to Manhattan and began to write magazine articles, mostly about economic waste. Even before the Depression he made a hit with The Tragedy of Waste. He is the only U. S. author to make three book clubs: Your Money's Worth (with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mexico & Middletown | 8/10/1931 | See Source »

...tycoon. Happy in Kansas City the tycoon and his dependents fall on miserable days when they move to a magnificent home in Manhattan. The tycoon's wife allows herself to be cajoled by a mustachioed gigolo. The son of the family becomes a whiskey-sot. The daughter, painfully snubbed by socialites, falls in love with one who does not snub her (Leslie Howard). A denouement of sorts arrives when the son, overcome by alcoholic despair, commits suicide in an airplane. The tycoon then begins to look after his wife. The daughter, it seems, will get the man she wants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 20, 1931 | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

...operators. On the other hand, it conveys the clear impression of a character who, if not much like the late Hetty Green, resembles somewhat the world's conception of her. Actress May Robson noticed how Hetty Green's mouth curved down in a hard line under a snub nose, how her eyes sparkled merrily under tufted, threatening eyebrows. An expert in makeup, she made her own features do likewise when she had obtained permission for Author Howard McKent Barnes to write Mother's Millions and make its derivations obvious. Born in Australia 66 years ago, Actress Robson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 8, 1931 | 6/8/1931 | See Source »

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