Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...CASE OF THE VELVET CLAWS- Erle Stanley Gardner-Morrow...
...appear to be in the offing. To understand what the Conservatives might do it is necessary to look back a little. For some years past there has been within the Conservative Party a loyal opposition headed by Major Walter Elliot, who favors a positive, aggressive, policy in contrast to Stanley Baldwin's sit-tight-and-all-will-be-well program. This minorlty is now beginning to get the ear of the rank and file of the party because of a widespread public reaction against the present National Government's do-nothing policy...
...team of 20 missionaries, sponsored by no less than 84 different denominational boards, set out last September for a tour of 29 major U.S. cities. Everywhere, audiences crowded upon them-a total last week of 300,000 people. Heading the team were Dr. Eli Stanley Jones, famed as an evangelist to high caste Hindus and author of Christ of the Indian Road, and Hankow's Bishop Logan Herbert Roots, able and deeply beloved churchman. Potent speakers have also been President Herman Chen-en Liu of Shanghai University, whose grandfather became a Christian: well-poised Miss Wu, whom all China...
...play concerns an actress (Margalo Gillmore) who is revisited by her deplorable husband, Stanley Vance (Ernest Milton), a homosexual masochist and the most despicable villain who has set foot on the stage since Simon Legree. Returning from a long disappearance, Vance begins to exert his baleful influence over Miss Gillmore, a spell from which she had just recovered. He makes her tie his shoes, hustle for his breakfast, breaks her spirit. Both her brother (kinetic Basil Sydney) and her manager who loves her (William Harrigan) have good reason to kill Vance. But the job is finally done very adroitly...
...division and if he maintains his pace of last year should have no trouble in holding down his position this season. In the century free-style, however, the situation is much more complicated and four men are in the field. John L. Ward '34, Abbot W. Sherwood, Jr. '35, Stanley M. Wyman '35, George Wightman '34 and Herbert M. Howe '34 are fighting for the top honors in the 100-yard free-style class. Howe is also in the running for the sprint event...