Word: ve
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Worth Bingham, who saves his strength for just such an occasion, throbbed at Miss Booth: "She, her father and her family come from that rare and precious stuff of which saints and martyrs have been made. England has given much to my country. . . . But I doubt if they've ever given us a greater gift than in giving us this great woman, this great leader. Now with gratitude we give her back to you." Replied Miss Booth: "He gave me away in a masterly manner. That was the nearest thing to a wedding ceremony I've ever heard...
...grave, of fended shade of Victor Herbert. Music in the Air is principally important for providing Miss Swanson, 36, with her current comeback vehicle. She seems very well preserved and sings through her teeth in a sprightly way. Aside from her triangular mouth and a song called "I've Told Every Little Star," the mainstay of the action is June Lang, a blonde who has spent several years on the Fox lot, having her teeth straightened and taking lessons in singing, acting, and diction. Miss Lang has emerged as completely unremarkable a young woman as the cinema has produced...
...ve seen no evidence that the holders of private capital are ready to use it. We can't sit around indefinitely waiting for private capital to get going. ... If private industry charges rates socially too high, why shouldn't we compete? . . . We could build very attractive houses at a low rate of interest. We've been paying 3% for money, whereas private financiers have to pay much more. Conceivably we can make an agreement with labor so that we can pay lower rates and offer year round work...
...News, the story, as usual, got around town. By this month it was more than Mrs. Krapp could stand. Flinging gentility to the winds, she filed suit for $10,000 against Mrs. Snyder, Mrs. Roscoe, Mrs. English and the eight other Sorosis members, charging defamation of character. "I've been a good Christian and a good woman all my life," cried Mrs. Zenobia Krapp. "I never wrote those letters...
...grew up with Chet, and I've never seen him when lack wasn't with him. Once his jitney gave out forty miles from nowhere, and who came along and towed him in but Senator Black. The Senator became so interested in Chet that he gave him a job in his office that summer and offered to help him through college...