Word: soups
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...First book-form biography of Mrs. Simpson will be published this week under the title Her Name Was Wallis Warfield.* It also contains one of the "sparkling epigrams" for which Mrs. Simpson has a reputation. The epigram: "Soup is an uninteresting liquid which gets you nowhere." Almost an epigram was Mrs. Simpson's crack when British friends suggested and subsequently arranged that she should be presented at Court in 1931 to their King George...
When Terry (Margaret Sullavan), the bravest little unemployed ingenue living at the shabby Foot-Lights Club, says that she would not go to Hollywood and have her art put up in a can like soup even for an ermine swimming pool, she is not bringing any fresh arguments to bear on the long-mooted question of superiority be tween stage and screen. And when her radical, playwriting friend (Richard Kendrick), having decided after a Broad way success to go West and write for and not about the masses, tells Terry that the theatre is an obsolete art form which...
Phillips Packing, having lost money-in spite of its cheap canned soup campaign-in the first quarter, cleared $143,706 in the second quarter, upped the figure to $861,365 for the third quarter. Boomed Soup-man Albanus Phillips in issuing his statement: "Please bear in mind . . . that I do not wish to commit the company to the issuance of quarterly statements...
Awarded. To Dr. George Morris Dorrance, famed Philadelphia facial surgeon and board chairman of Campbell Soup Co.: the Poor Richard medal of achievement; in Philadelphia...
...personality clearly emerges from the welter of detail about people and books and events. Here is Amy Lowell joining the guests at her table after the roast has been removed and, despite having two plates of soup, catching up with them before the meal is over. Here is Amy Lowell, self-described, at an Advocate smoker, "smuggled into an upper chamber, and kept quiet with cigars while they heckled me in true undergraduate fashion. I think I held my own; I tried to." We may be sure that she did. Here is the sincerity, the generosity, the fearlessness, the humor...