Word: swans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...play. This reviewer confidently expected a sorry play acted by a cast of second-rate stock-company players, but he was pleasantly surprised. The parts of the small-town liberal editor, Doremus Jessup, of sharp-tongued Lorinda Pike, uncouth, imbecilic Shad LeDue, capitalistic Francis Tasbough, suave, silken Commandant Swan and sanctimonious Parson Prang are filled competently, even played momentarily with flashes of insight. It is no fault of theirs that the audience occasionally laughs in the wrong places; rather it is the fault of the medium, for the use of exaggeration and caricature is at all times, terrifying rather than...
...homely as a hedgehog," said this frank reader, "my only good feature being my blue eyes. . . . Don't you think it would be a feather in your cap if you could be the one who changed this very ugly duckling into even a pale pink swan? If you have any of Pygmalion in you, please be a sport and help...
There was nothing constructive in the Smith Speech, and it became more apparent with each paragraph that it was merely the swan song of a bitter and frustrated man, from under whom Mr. Roosevelt had yanked the Presidential chair in 1932. His denial of jealousy rings as false as his plea of poverty, in spite of many attempted humorous allusions to his brown derby...
...sought the Governor's permission to bring about a meeting with visions of posed photographs and a worthwhile national story. Governor Wilson was timid about the proprieties of it, but allowed himself to be persuaded to accept an invitation from the President. If memory serves me correctly Billy Swan (yachting stories) then of the Associated Press made the contact with the President's party. Result: A cordial invitation from the genial Taft to the man who within a month was to unseat...
...French Casino she appears with nothing but a stuffed swan's neck in front of her, dispenses with even that in her finale. Theatrically indignant at her surroundings last week, she declared: "Imagine me dancing in a tent! I came here thinking it was the Mayfair Casino; honestly I feel wicked as hell. I've never appeared this nude before, and my family don't know what to think." For Cleveland's 100-day combination of culture & carnival 1,000,000 tickets at 50? each have been sold in advance. Well aware that...