Word: virginally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tiki (Alexander Markey) belongs to that class of films which theatre managers advertise with lobby displays of excelsior and old straw, to represent South Sea Island residences. The cast contains The Virgin Bride, Her Lover and Her Father, all performed by natives. There is a volcano in the background. The dialog is entirely unintelligible...
...rubber tax" which had to be worked out in default of the money that no Congo Negro possessed. In his fascinating yarn Herr Bauer has made the most of the contrast between black man and white king. When he is writing of Stanley's trip down the virgin Congo, the prose picks up speed, attains poetic concentration. The translation, by Eden and Cedar Paul, is unobtrusively good...
Last week President Roosevelt received another complaint about his Secretary of the Interior, this time from Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi. The point at issue was Mr. Ickes' antipolitical administration of the Virgin Islands. Secretary Ickes had insisted that Paul Martin Pearson, sexagenarian Chautauqua organizer appointed by Herbert Hoover as Governor of the Virgin Islands, should not be removed to make room for a deserving Democrat. Senator Harrison had a job-seeking friend named T. (for Thomas) Webber Wilson of Mississippi who in 1928 gave up a seat in the House to run for the Senate and lost. Lest...
...Dealers of New York City whom Mr. Ickes ordered to oust Republican Robert Moses from the Triborough Bridge Authority before more Federal funds would be advanced (TIME, Jan. 21). When the Virgin Islands trouble broke last week Mr. Ickes was in Manhattan telling the Dutch Treat Club: "I was introduced to you as the Secretary of Interior, but ... I should have been introduced as Pharaoh's daughter. How was I to know that New York had only one honest man to serve as a public official...
...Sexagenarian Herrick lay sunning himself at Winter Park, Fla., he received an appointment from Secretary of the Interior Ickes as Government Secretary to the Virgin Islands, right hand Administrative job in the regime of Sexagenarian Governor Paul Pearson. Novelist Herrick packed his bag, boarded an amphibian and three days later took the oath of office in the Administration Building in St. Thomas...