Word: ve
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said the King, "and I've got a nasty bone in my leg, too. I say, if you send that photograph to St. James's Palace, I shall be very glad to autograph...
...large gathering in Carnegie Hall. Quavered he: 'If all of us old men and old women were put in the front rank, I'm not sure there'd be a war. ... I advocate a slogan, 'Old Uns First.' Why not? We've had a good inning. The young 'uns haven't had any. And any old man can learn to work an airplane after awhile. . . . We haven't paid for the Crimean War yet, or for Waterloo yet, and we never will. But did any one say they settled anything? . . . Wars...
...account of the sextuplets' fabulous birth, pictured the six bouncing boys, told how Nestlé's milk had made them grow. When the last child was born, gay Mme Vicogne was reported to have said: "Let's call him 'Jean-Ai-Assez.' [I've had enough]." This number of Vu also offered a page of photographs of some extraordinary animals. There was a cow-pigeon, a sheep-duck, a zebra headed like a rhinoceros, a monstrous swan wattled like a rooster. "Nature is an inexhaustible mystery," reflected Vu, explaining that the pictures had been...
Hamm Solution. "I think we've solved the Hamm kidnapping at last," exulted Director Hoover, handing newshawks his third exciting press announcement within three days. Briefly it announced the arrest at separate points of three men, virtually unknown in police circles, for the kidnapping in June 1933 of St. Paul's Brewer William A. Hamm Jr., released four days later after payment of $100,000 ransom. Also named as co-kidnappers were three men now in jail. Still at large for this and a score of other crimes is Alvin Karpis...
Gentle Julia (Twentieth Century-Fox). Busily cornering the market on child talent, Twentieth Century-Fox not only controls Shirley Temple but also her antithesis, Jane Withers. Like Captain January, Gentle Julia is a star's ve-hide, perambulator size. It exhibits Miss Withers as Florence Atwater, small niece of the heroine of Booth Tarkington's famed novel. She spends her time disrupting the flirtations of Julia Atwater (Marsha Hunt), blackmailing her small cousin (Jackie Searle), annoying her grandfather, snubbing her aunt's most impressive beau. She has an attachment for a shaggy young newspaperman (Tom Brown...