Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first impression of many a newsreader last week was that poor little Shirley Temple was fried to a crisp; that Madeleine Carroll was dead-not by the bullet of a rival spy, but by incineration; that nothing was left of Leo Carrillo but his accent; that Alice Brady, Virginia Bruce, Miriam Hopkins, Richard Dix. June Lang and Oliver Hardy were not much better than ingredients in a huge Thanksgiving Barbecue. In the press, pictures of these notables were accompanied by such headlines as FOREST FIRES RAZE FILM COLONY HOMES, and FLAMES WRECK HOMES OF STARS; TOWNS IN PERIL...
...most "abominably unknown" contemporary writer, according to Ford Madox Ford, is Dorothy Richardson, a 56-year-old, myopic Englishwoman. During the past 23 years she has published eleven volumes (eight in the U. S.) of a lifework called Pilgrimage. Ford ranks her with Proust, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf as an inventor of the "stream of consciousness" technique, believes her obscurity is due to critics' and readers' distaste for distinguished writing...
...purged," and old Adolph Sabath of Illinois, next in line, was safely reelected. But of the eight other Democrats on Rules, only three were New Dealers and they were all swept away in the elections. In line for the chair after old Mr. Sabath are Georgia's Cox, Virginia's Smith, North Carolina's Clark and Dies of Texas-all in varying degrees anti-Administration. Moreover, the new ratio on Rules will be nine Democrats to five Republicans. Small wonder that Franklin Roosevelt last week called his Congressional leaders to a parley next week in Warm Springs...
...entirely unexpected and libelous attack upon Virginia football by one "Tack" Hardwick strikes us as creating exactly the opposite impression from the one he grimly set about to establish. . . . Hardwick served to place Harvard in an unsportsmanlike position by his vicious attack; of the interchange of "cracks" it was the Harvard team who were guilty of profanity. We were good-natured, they insulting. . . . It seems shameful that any group of comparatively intelligent individuals representing, we suppose, an institution so aged and venerable as Harvard should degrade themselves to such an extent. The attitude exhibited by the Cambridge and Boston people...
Yale, however, will probably not use many "sleepers," which is fortunate, for after a whole afternoon of "sleeper" practice against Chicago the week before, Harvard was still flatfooted against them yesterday. One Virginia touchdown came on a spectacular 35-yard reverse-field "sleeper" and the second coming after two passes not technically "sleepers" but equally obvious...