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Jittery and wrathful appeared the white-thatched leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition, Conservative Robert J. Manion, M.D., whose Irish tongue is as sharp as his surgical knives. Doctor Manion was upset because for several days he had tried in vain to get an advance peep at the Speech-from-the-Throne which Lord Tweedsmuir was to read. Ordinarily the Leader of the Opposition is allowed the courtesy of a peek. This time the Speech had been kept secret by order of its author, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. That astute and genial fat man obviously...
...picturesque adventures (naughty but never nasty), Lady Eleanor's most colorful acquaintance was her reckless, extravagant, vain, arrogant, sentimental, witty father. From the one chapter she gives to him, a reader must conclude that he was an even more picturesque throwback to Bathsheba than his daughter, and that she would have done better writing his biography than...
Looking very much like a man who had not one but two bears by the tail, Dean Russell tried in vain to mollify Horace Mann's parents by offering to establish part of his new merged school in Horace Mann's building, part in Lincoln...
Olivier's wife, British Actress Jill Esmond, recently filed a divorce suit in England, named no corespondent. In London Cinemactress Leigh's husband, Barrister Herbert Leigh Holman, after vain efforts to bring her back to himself and their six-year-old daughter, last week started divorce proceedings. Grounds: misconduct. Corespondent: Laurence Olivier...
There was not money enough in the Carolinas for all the Negro folk, so Benjamin and Pearl Mason drifted north to Philadelphia. Ben washed cars in a garage. They had a baby girl, and things were all right until 1931. Then Ben lost his job, looked in vain for another. Another baby was born, a boy this time. On relief, 42-year-old Ben drew $11.40 a week. Their house had no heat except the kitchen stove. "Wasn't fit for animals," observed Pearl wearily. "Every time it rained it rained right into the house." She made what...