Word: stockinged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many an oldtime Smith admirer has felt that the Brown Derby was rapidly losing the common touch since his withdrawal from active politics, was growing reactionary and bad-tempered as the New Deal unfolded. Yet even these erstwhile friends had to admit that Al Smith retained his salty gift of...
Marilyn Miller's step-in was the chief acquisition of the couple who shared first prize with Mrs. Waterbury & Mr. Holmsen. At the theatre where Actress Miller is dancing in As Thousands Cheer, doormen and a detective fought off a score of scavengers who tried to invade her dressing...
(8 of 8) pledge. But many a silk-stocking Republican, to whom LaGuardia's radicalism is repugnant and who remembers how the gallant major bedeviled Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover, would quietly cast his vote for handsome, upright young Joe McKee. Adding Republican momentum to its original Democratic impetus...
After this darkness will come the dawn. World trade will revive, under an Air Dictatorship, but national government will remain a thing of the past. Basic English (invented in 1922 by C. K. Ogden) will be the lingua franca of the world. Local coinage will be replaced by the "air...
There was other evidence last week that business, kindly as it felt towards the Administration's recovery efforts, loud as it was in declaring so, inevitably had other interests at heart. Hardly a businessman in the whole U. S. but has taken forehanded measures tending to nullify the recovery...