Word: warmers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Broadway had another important theatrical bankruptcy last week. Albert Herman ("Sweetheart") Woods failed for about a million and a half. Producer Woods-his real name is Albert Herman, the "Woods" was an afterthought - achieved fame through a series of farces by Avery Hopwood (Fair & Warmer, Up In Mabel's Room, Getting Gertie's Garter) that caused the reformers of a decade ago to cry shrilly for the police. But Al Woods has innumerable friends. Notably sloppy in his dress, generally ill-shaven, he calls everybody, male or female, "Sweetheart" with the exception of his friend George Bernard Shaw...
...sail for a vacation at Palermo. Justice Holmes returned to his home at Beverly Farms, Mass, to read and rest. Justice Brandeis hurried away to his sum mer cottage at Chatham near Cape Cod. The golf courses about Buena Vista Spring, Pa. drew Justice Butler. Justice Stone waited for warmer weather before going to fish on his own private island near Isle au Haut off the coast of Maine. Justice Sutherland will spend the summer quietly at Burlingame, Calif. Justice Roberts will farm strenuously at Phoenixville, Pa. Justice Van Devanter is planning a trip to Scotland for golf, going...
...Conn., June 2--The second full day of practice for the Harvard crews today was much more strenuous, with all four eights getting stiff workouts. The weather was clear and warmer and Coaches Whiteside and Haines wasted no time in getting their men down to the real work...
With the advent of warmer weather the thoughts of the average run of young men turn in the general direction of the tender passion and its inevitable concomitants. Already an acute observer may see an occasional lady leaning over her casement in the hope that a modern knight will pass by in a suave phaeton gayly tirra-lirraing. Whereas the Vagabond does not profess to be more than slightly conversant with such cardiac matters he has heard from vehement, if not avowedly authentic sources that a knowledge of poetry is rarely a hindrance and often a help...
...about cyclones on the sun which sweep clockwise across the southern solar hemisphere, counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere, Dr. Einstein suggested that a temperature difference between the sun's poles and equator might be the cause of the solar cyclones. Most probably, he said, the polar regions were warmer than the equatorial regions. Having given out an idea for Mt. Wilson astronomers to ponder, he peered at tiny Planet Eros through the Mt. Wilson telescope (see above), went to Los Angeles as guest of Cinemactor Charles Chaplin to see the opening of City Lights...