Word: soled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dead. From now on the League of Nations is sole custodian of our report." Mrs. McCoy & Spy- Privately members of the League Commission are telling friends about fun they constantly had with Japanese spies, even in China. The story goes that in Peiping Mrs. Frances Judson McCoy, wife of the U. S. member, General Frank Ross McCoy, entered her hotel bedroom, caught a servant red handed in the act of "dusting." "Splendid!" cried Mrs. McCoy. "The room is dirty isn't it? I am so glad you are dusting! Now get a mop and mop the floor...
...when his father died in 1909, has exhibited diligence and ambition as a businessman but has yet made no great name for himself. His financial backing has come largely from his mother. Mrs. Mary W. Harriman, who describes herself in Who's Who as "sole heir upon death of husband to estate appraised at about $100,000,000." In 1916 he resigned a Union Pacific vice-presidency to enter the shipbuilding field. Later he formed American Ship & Commerce Corp., an ambitious scheme for international trade. In 1926 the company sold most of its vessels to Hamburg-American...
BLONDE INTERLUDE-Bourke Lee -Simon & Schuster ($2). The publishers' first step in bringing out "well-written novels, entertainment their sole purpose." Theme: twelve swirling New York months, better than the title sounds...
...charged that Brother William "zealously guarded the name Fox as his own trade mark," willingly paid members of the family to refrain from capitalizing on it because, even when he "was obliged to retire," he expected to re-enter the film business and "continue to enjoy, for his sole benefit, the monopoly and prestige of the Fox family name." She said that when her husband incorporated Aaron Fox Film Corp., he "incurred the severe displeasure and disdain" of Brother William, who, with the connivance of a Manhattan alienist, had Brother Aaron whisked away to a sanatorium, the Hartford (Conn.) Retreat...
...professional father, with his apple-red cheeks and absent-minded ways and her mother, whose sole concern is marrying her daughters well, are of no help. Hanny, her elder sister, is infatuated with a handsome rascal, Warmelo. Tina watches Hanny's miseries, her mother's maneuvers with widening, saddening eyes. Suddenly she is in love herself. When Alf Ten Berge takes her out on the dunes, tries to consummate their love, she is terrified, runs home. Alf marries another girl for spite...