Word: veterans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...them Actress Tallulah Bankhead, Attorney General Frank Murphy, Cinemactor Conrad Nagel (thrice), Admiral Byrd (thrice), Musicomedian Victor Moore ("It's too slow going up, too fast coming down"), Bullfighter Sidney Franklin. Other parachuters : a couple who hold the riding record (nine trips), a blind man, a legless War veteran, two drunks who went up with a live duck...
...film. The earliest: a newsreel of the Kaiser (1914); the latest: The Bill of Rights, a Warner Bros, short to be released in August. From this vast batch, Hays office experts and recruits from studios culled 1,000 excerpts from 125 films, and in the last two months Veteran Producer Cecil B. DeMille and Historian James T. Shotwell have worked side by side in Hollywood putting the pieces together with proper commentary and fanfare...
...Mermoz, surveyor of the Casablanca-Dakar line across the Sahara, the South American line between Buenos Aires and Santiago; veteran of a dozen smashups; who, before he was lost in the South Atlantic, confessed to Saint Exupéry: "It's worth it, it's worth the final smashup...
...Veteran...
...Robert Alphonso Taft, Ohio, 85%; voice quality good, delivery fair, mannerisms poor, poise fair. "Notably inept at speech-making," Senator Taft is marked down nevertheless as a "phenomenon of the politico-radio world." Reason: after his series of 13 radio debates with witty Congressman T. V. Smith, a radio veteran, on New Deal policies early this year, a Gallup Poll totted the score thus: Taft 66%, Smith 34%. Explanation: "He speaks a homely common sense with a sincerity that makes people listen to him anyway...