Word: wanly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inaugurating a Be Rude to People Week, Jim Grouch snarled "G'wan, go back to sleep. There must be some easier way to earn a living." He instructed his listeners: "Instead of saying nice things to your hostess when the cocktails are lousy, tell her they're lousy." When, last week, Jim Grouch backslid, tried to launch a Be Helpful Week, his listeners objected so strenuously that he cut the program short...
...something to one's faith in Cupid or David O. Selznick, Jr. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., following in the footsteps of his illustrious father, turns in a superb performance as the delightfully unscrupulous Rupert of Hentzau. Though Mr. Colman has might and right on his side, he looks a little wan when he has to share a scene with Mr. Fairbanks...
...something to one's faith in Cupid or David O. Selznick, Jr. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., following in the footsteps of his illustrious father, turns in a superb performance as the delightfully unscrupulous Rupert of Hentzau. Though Mr. Coleman has might and right on his side, he looks a little wan when he has to share a scene with Mr. Fairbanks...
Visible among the babbling throng of spectators were the 44¼-carat Hope Diamond and its wan owner, Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean. Also on view were the New York Herald Tribune's fashionable chitchat columnist, Lucius Beebe; Ward Morehouse of the New York Sun; Dr. Kingsley Roberts, Manhattan Surgeon; Mrs. Paul T. Mayo of Denver, her sister Mrs. Stanley Harris of Washington, Mrs, William McKinnon of Paris, Eloise Staats of Greenwich, Conn., who raises horses on her Colorado ranch, and a host of other socialites. There was so much alcoholic garrulity in the packed house that the first...
Tituba, a Negro servant (Madame Sul-Te-Wan), gets the Massachusetts housewives thinking about witches when she tells of devil dances she has witnessed in the jungle. Her tales excite a nervous child, Ann (Bonita Granville). who is punished for having a stolen book on witches. Ann gets even with Tituba by pretending to be bewitched. Then Ann's mother testifies that Tituba bewitched her too. Soon the folk begin to find the charge of witchcraft handy for paying off grudges. Once roaring on its way, the hysteria veers round to Barbara when she temerously defends an accused person...