Word: unhappiest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Unhappiest individual in all this was A. F. A.'s oldtime Comedienne Sophie Tucker, 55, who as its non-salaried president stuck by Mr. Whitehead and loyally condoned his switch to Stagehand Browne. For this she was suspended by all-powerful Equity and other subsidiaries of Four As (barring her in effect from stage, screen and radio), pitied by Thespians who concluded that Sophie at last was showing...
...Republican legislators who connived to load him with all the blame for their sorry record, adjourn with the least possible damage to their party. New York's Democrat Herbert Lehman recalled his Legislature to Albany to repair a budget which a Republican majority had unconstitutionally cut. But the unhappiest, unluckiest Governor of 1939 was California's Democrat Culbert Levy Olson...
...Unhappiest experience occurred to Abraham & Straus, where preliminary tests brought a belated discovery that NBC is broadcasting its pictures only northward of the Empire State Building. So Brooklynites were given admission cards to an A. T. C. demonstration in Manhattan. There 500 guests crowded into a small room to try to watch an hour show of film and live talent on a bright green screen, five inches square. Many strained their eyes so badly that they left the show seeing pink spots...
...winners went ribbons, trophies and cash, furnished out of the entry fees of 50? a bird. Noteworthy entrants: ¶ Biggest bird in the show was Ramon, a giant Runt* from Dallas. For his 3? lb., he had an 18-in. body circumference, wing spread of three feet. ¶ Unhappiest breed were Parlor Tumblers. Equipped with the determination of homing pigeons but utterly unable to fly, their efforts to get off the ground cause them to somersault backward. Single Tumblers flop over once, Double Tumblers twice. Parlor Rollers will roll 75 ft. backward without stopping. ¶ Most numerous were 600 Kings...
...Caesar and Cleopatra had a long and prosperous run. The god Broadway was beginning to give her glory in good measure. Her What Every Woman Knows was a great personal and financial success, and the next year (1927), she took a chance on a play that had the unhappiest ending imaginable-the heroine, a Southern flibbertigibbet, shoots herself in the last act. This was Coquette, which had to be interrupted while Miss Hayes bore her new husband, Playwright Charles MacArthur, their famed daughter Mary...