Word: ve
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...main reason I'm not running is simply because I've only had a four-year crack at this Chronicle job from topside, and being a fathead I think I need a couple of more years anyhow. The dope is I'm sort of a squirt, a very egotistical one-so egotistical that I think I'm smart enough to know I haven't done the job with a newspaper yet. Maybe I'll wait and run for President...
...script of Metamora: or, The Last of the Wampanoags, first actable U. S. drama about American Indians, and a favorite of Edwin Forrest. This week the Lost Plays series presents Flying Scud, one of six lost dramas by Dion Boucicault. Its claim to fame: the line "I've got to see a man about...
Even down here in the heart of the Sugar Bowl we know that you've just got to have nice, sour lemons to make good lemonade. Give Mr. Harper his lump sugar, but continue making the rest a little on the tart side for us good-natured fellows...
...view on four sides of the U. S. last week were three freshmen Governors and one postgraduate, all engaged in bitter-end battles with their Legislatures. Texas' Wilbert Lee ("Pass the Biscuits") O'Daniel, having surprisingly turned into a sincere if nai've executive who could get nowhere against professional obstructors, sent his Legislature home from Austin with a near-zero record. Wisconsin's ludicrous Julius ("The Just") Heil in Madison was entangled in his own bumblings and the snares of Republican legislators who connived to load him with all the blame for their sorry record...
...thousand-dollar bills, a long police record, a beauteous consort (Helen Patterson Heywood, who divorced her husband for him). Last week, friendless, feeble, finished, 59-year-old Dapper Don went to Sing Sing to serve 15 to 30 years. His crime: a piddling swindle. Said he: "I've been around, but today I'm just an old reprobate...