Word: thelma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thelma Lane lived peacefully on a hill farm near Glen Hazard, Tennessee mountain town. Her brother Chad lived with her; from dawn to dusk he swung a dirty hoe. Just as he had about got the farm paid for, in came City-Man Lynn Clayton who had inherited some deserted coal mines next door. The outlander, financed by his friend Lida Grant who came with him to watch his operations, planned to make coal-bricks out of the deserted coal-dust, sell it to the city's poor. His meat was Glen Hazard's poison. First he ordered the Lanes...
Among Mr. Carroll's comelier employes are Miss St. Louis, Miss San Francisco, Miss New York, Miss America, Miss Universe. Dancers Thelma White & Murray Bernie trip through several novel routines, as do the beauteous Collette Sisters. There is a submarine ballet which if it does not delude spectators into thinking the mermaids are under water, at least convinces that they are undressed. There are also two funnymen- melancholy little Jimmie Savo and handsome Jack Benny- and one extremely funny man, Herb Williams. Mr. Williams culminates his evening's work when, while playing the piano, he pauses to remove...
...Jersey primaries involved nominations for two terms?the unexpired term of Walter Evans Edge, now Ambassador to France, and the regular long term of 1931-37. Mr. Morrow won both nominations. Democrats who will oppose him are: for the short term, Miss Thelma Parkinson, a political newcomer; for the long term, Alexander Simpson, State politician, Wet commoner...