Word: squalling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ballots: Alice Brady (Sour Grapes, The Witch, Lady Alone, The Thief), Ruth Gordon (Saturday's Children), Rose McClendon (In Abraham's Bosom), Helen Menken (The Captive), Ethel Barrymore (The Constant Wife), Lynn Fontanne (Pygmalion, The Second Man), Jane Cowl (The Road To Rome), Blanche Yurka (The Squall). Actors honorably mentioned: Walter Huston (The Barker), Frank Wilson (In Abraham's Bosom), Morgan Farley (An American Tragedy), Lee Tracey (Broadway), Holbrook Blinn (The Play's the Thing), E. G. Robinson (Brothers Karamazov, Juarez and Maximilian...
...Squall-A Gypsy vampire in a Spanish household causing mild drama...
After the fall of Cannonism, after a split with Theodore Roosevelt, after a squall with Samuel Gompers, "Uncle Joe" spent eight years (1915-23) in Congress in the subdued role of a mere member. Then he returned to Danville, to see how his Second National Bank* was getting along, to sing his old favorite songs...
...Squall. The best stage storm of the season disrupts the serene domesticity of a Spanish household. From under the black clouds, into a country home, scurries a gipsy girl, fleeing from her man with a whip. The ladies of the household take her under their protection-foolishly, because the gipsy has more sex appeal than all the rest of the family put together. Within one year (intermission) she seduces the manservant, the son and the master of the house. And she does these things in the big parlor hall that gives on every room in the house. The ladies...
Behind the recall petition is a nine-year battle between Governor Hartley and Dr. Henry Suzzallo, who was dismissed as President of the University of Washington by a Hartley-packed board of regents three weeks ago (TIME, Oct. 18). The squall began during the War when Mr. Suzzallo of the Labor Industries Board urged that Mr. Hartley, then a potent lumberman, should put his burly lumberjacks on an eight-hour day. The two men did not become any better friends when Mr. Hartley became Governor in 1925 and smashed into Mr. Suzzallo's scheme for a bigger, better...