Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Patriot. James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin, Alabama's curious senior Senator, who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope, advertised a Protestant rally backed "by the Ku Klux Klan and other patriots," to be held June 17 in Hurstsville, just outside the Albany city limits. Senator Heflin promised to heffle; admission...
Most political district leaders give such parties but staunch Tammany Tom Farley's are perhaps the most celebrated in Manhattan. The pre-eminent success of this particular Farley Fête, which produced more congratulatory editorials than Mr. Farley's fierce but successful fight to attain the leadership of his district, could be attributed largely to the admirable Linder. Jealous Republicans, who can give no such parties in Manhattan, scoffingly suggested that the fat boy would have been kept away from the party for fear of frightening the other guests, had it not been for the fact that...
Boston Theatre--The great, the only, etc. Tom Mix in person, accompanied by Tony the Wonder Horse. Not that anybody will want to see them, but we thought they might as well be mentioned...
...Tom Mix, he of the gigantic hat, he whose shadow has so often swept across the screen of the University, has come from Hollywood, and he has shown that the mania for handling big receptions in a big way is not a growth that flowers only in the adult mind. The germ is implanted in the child's first consciousness, and flourishes from that time on. But though the mature can claim no monopoly in its possession, they alone are able to release it install its dazzling light. The top hats, the mile-long parade, and the tons of confetti...
SERIOUS COQUETTE-About a girl who loves a shiftless lad and kills herself after her father kills him (TIME, Nov. 21). STRANGE INTERLUDE-Acting by Lynn Fontanne, Helen Westley, Earle Larimore, Glenn Anders, Tom Powers. Production by the Theatre Guild. Nine acts complete with asides and soliloquies by Eugene O'Neill (TIME, Feb. 13). MELODRAMA THE TRIAL OF MARY DUGAN-Court procedure centres around a chorus girl who seems to have murdered a very dear gentleman friend (TIME, Oct. 3). THE SILENT HOUSE-A Chinaman sharpens his chopsticks (TIME, Feb. 20). THE SCARLET Fox-Willard Mack gets...