Word: things
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what I said, nor were any political implications intended," Mr. Williams wrote to the Committee last week. To newsmen he explained he had thought he was talking off-the-record. He added: "I think I would be a very queer duck if I did not do this sort of thing...
Apple-cheeked Premier Thomas Dufferin Pattullo had journeyed to Washington to chat with President Roosevelt about his cherished dream of a road to Alaska. Returning to find his newly finished post office occupied by a noisy rabble, he failed to impress them by announcing that "this sort of thing must stop." The Dominion Government asked Vancouver city authorities to take action, lent a detachment of red-tunicked Royal Canadian Mounted Police to assist the khaki-clad provincial police and blue-coated city constables in an evacuation. Premier Pattullo gave the sit-downers until 4 a.m. June 19 to move...
...over in 124 seconds by the clock.* Most of the 70,000 spectators, some of whom paid as much as $125 for a seat, were as bewildered as the challenger. Men who were lighting their pipes missed the whole thing. By the time those in the rear rows had jumped onto their chairs to see over the heads of those who had jumped onto their chairs in front, the match looked like a crap game. In the ring everyone seemed to be crouched on the canvas. Referee Arthur Donovan was counting-three, four, five-over the dazed challenger...
...wall surface in Missouri's capitol at Jefferson City. Also full of salty realism was his autobiography, An Artist in America. A Kansas City real-estate operator named Howard Huselton read the book till his eyes popped, found it "sensual, gross, profane, vulgar." It seemed a parlous thing to Mr. Huselton that the author of such a work should be instructor at the Kansas City Art Institute. Round to the Institute's board of governors pattered prim Mr. Huselton to complain. Last week, when the question of renewing Benton's teaching contract came up, not one governor...
...Three daughters become schoolteacher, waitress, fashion model. When two other children become famous Hollywood stars, May goes to live in a Beverly Hills mansion. But she remains unchanged, continues to charm everybody with her full-blooded Bowery simplicity. As with Author Brinig's other novels, the most remarkable thing about May Flavin is that it is offered as further confirmation of Author Brinig's emergence as a coming major novelist...