Word: vow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...praised his dancing, called him "more fascinating than the Prince of Wales." His digestion seemed to improve. He seemed to be able to drink his royal quota of champagne. By careful practice he learned to speak so exactly like the Prince of Wales that equerries to the royal brothers vow that with their eyes shut they cannot tell which prince is which...
When she retired from the stage in 1918, Maude Adams vowed never to act again. She has broken her vow twice: once in 1931, when she toured in The Merchant of Venice; again last winter when she performed on the radio for Pond's Cold Cream. Last week, Maude Adams, now 62, seemed closer than ever to a real return to the Manhattan theatre where she was No. 1 actress (Peter Pan, Little Minister) in the decade before the War. She opened at Ogunquit, Maine, in Twelfth Night...
...Miss Adams' plans for Twelfth Night were a week in Ogunquit, followed by a two month tour of New England summer theatres. If she and the play are as well received as they were last week she may take it to Manhattan in October, thus annihilating her 1918 vow...
...most of her childhood. Her sister Anna was the beauty of the family; Selma was towheaded and not pretty, had been sent away to Stockholm's Orthopedic Institute to help her lameness. An undemonstrative child, she loved her father fiercely; when he was dangerously ill she made a vow to God that if his life were spared she would read the Bible from cover to cover. Her father recovered; Selma struggled on and one day her uncle discovered her poring over the Book of Revelation under a gooseberry bush. Her uncle reported to her parents, and when she overheard...
...tennis court with smelling-salts when she felt indisposed. The last time he left the U. S., in 1932, he had just lost to Ellsworth Vines in the finals of the National Singles Championship at Forest Hills. He denounced tournament, courts, officials, vowed never to come back. Last week Cochet broke his vow when he and stubby little Martin Plaa, for five years trainer of French Davis Cup teams, started a five-week tour of professional exhibition matches with William Tatem Tilden II and Ellsworth Vines...