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...sleeves; the pizazz, in short, that carried through Crecy and Agincourt and numerous Senate investigations and one Roosevelt and half of another, up to date. And what revived our flagging faith in our destiny was not the champagne or the swing time or the flash-light bulbs in the Stork Club, but an incident outside a particularly exclusive shop in Fifth Avenue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

Last month enthusiastic Editor Nelson went out to the Eisele farm to inform Mrs. Eisele in advance that she had won the Crowell prize. Two hours later happy Mrs. Eisele had a baby. Said she: "I was stunned but the stork wasn't.... He brought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Country Correspondent | 8/3/1936 | See Source »

...thankless business of suppressing Egyptian riots is supposed to have lost him an earldom. A squarejawed, heavyset, vigorous man, he specialized in English and Spanish literature and in his collection of birds, live and dead. For special pets he had a war-horse called Hindenburg and a marabou stork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Man on Foot | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

Miss Cela Lee of the Stork Club in New York will sing during supper, after which there will be one of the first public showings of old-fashioned movies, which will include the first Walt Disney and some of the thrillers of former days with William S. Hart and Theda Bara...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Huge Entertainment Program for First Modern Arts Ball | 4/8/1936 | See Source »

...rock, and two ancient mariners, one of whom keeps the light and unofficially adopts Miss Temple (Guy Kibbee), and the other of whom (Slim Summerville) attempts to alienate her affections by giving her a dancing crane, whom Miss Temple most winningly mistakes for an old acquaintance, thinking him a stork. It is really startling to notice how engrossed one becomes in the ways of the tenuous plot. For example, when Shirley is taking the examination that is to decide whether she may stay with her sea-bitten pals or must go to an institution, one comes remarkably close...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 4/8/1936 | See Source »

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