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...teeth, biting the tips of cigars, clarinet and tuba playing, holding cord between teeth; Miscellaneous habits which mark teeth characteristically include: pipe smoking, using.cigaret holder, chewing cigars, opening tops of bottles with teeth, cracking nuts, chewing bones (Dr. Ryan fondly gnaws the meat out of lobster shells), mouth breathing, thumb sucking, orange sucking...
...through the leadership of such luminaries as Robert Montgomery (Guild president) and Franchot & Joan Tone, had little need for Equity support when it wrung a 90% closed shop from Hollywood producers. President Gillmore's consolation was a sketchy group of radio performers which Equity still kept under its thumb. I Last week the actors in this quiet little drama emerged from the wings to play their parts on Unionism's stage. What precipitated the show was the simple fact that entertainment had gone a long way since that August night in 1919. Stage performers were now a distinct...
...patronage either from the city or from the New Deal. Their leader, James J. Dooling, who succeeded the deposed Boss Curry, was ill as he had been for months. Worse, he had never succeeded in becoming a real boss by bringing all factions of Tammany under his thumb. Worst of all, something had happened to Tammany's city...
...adjoining Peiping and Tientsin which he still holds. General Doihara failed miserably so far as Suiyuan, Shansi and Shantung were concerned and returned to Japan in semi-disgrace. His intrigue had succeeded, however, in bringing into semi-autonomous existence a Chinese regime more or less under Japan's thumb which is now governing Hopei and Chahar. An able, ambiguous and shrewd Chinese, General Sung Cneh-yuan, heads this regime known as the "Hopei-Chahar Political Council," and it was his troops who last week fought with valiant "broadswords" in obscure villages and lolled about in Tientsin railway stations...
Langdon Towne returned to Portsmouth, a bravo who could safely thumb his nose at civil authority, could even sell some pictures. Beauteous, snobbish Elizabeth, long out of his reach, began to bend towards him. Then came great Major Rogers himself, to be lionized. He treated Langdon bluffly as an old pal-and took his girl away from him. Langdon, heartbroken, sailed for London to learn more about painting. There,.four years later, he met Rogers again, still a great man but with the cracks beginning to show. Rogers was full of a scheme to find the Northwest Passage, will...