Word: waterlooed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...want no scapegoats," he cried. "This whole Cabinet must go. M. Tardieu has been compared with Napoleon. The comparison will be complete when he meets his Waterloo...
This is New York. There is an old saying that "New York is a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't live there if you gave me the place." Robert E. Sherwood, once an editor of Life, having written The Road to Rome and Waterloo Bridge, has turned his attention to this saw and has evidently decided to make a rebuttal. Producer Arthur Hopkins has selected a creditable cast to present Mr. Sherwood's side of the question. There is charming, blonde Lois Moran, recently of the audible cinema. Her legitimate stage technique is somewhat adolescent...
...Merchant Prince in Deed as Well as in Name was the heading of another. But when Henry Siegel died last week in Lakewood, N. J. at the age of 78, he was neither rich nor remembered. The Retail Napoleon had had his St. Helena as well as his Waterloo. Henry Siegel arrived in the U. S. in 1867, aged 15, the eighth of the ten sons of the burgomaster of Eubigheim, Germany. He started clerking in Washington at $3.50 a week. He soon owned stores in Manhattan, Chicago and Boston, homes in Manhattan, Westchester, London. He entertained lavishly, filled...
...vote). In this emergency no tellers could be found. They had sneaked out to lunch. Triumphantly Snowden-baiter Churchill moved adjournment in this "emergency" and the Chancellor was forced to yield, sour-faced. As he left the Government Bench, triumphant Winnie Churchill shouted mockingly: "Snowden, you have met your Waterloo...
Less prententions even than "Waterloo Bridge", is Mr. Howard's "Half Goda". It is a trite and trivial discussion of modern marriage and divorce. A wife is psychoanalyzed, goes p-fff-t (as Mr. W. Winchell says) with her husband, and opens the way for a lot of deserved, but absolutely unoriginal lambasting of the so-called Science of Psychology. Of course, in the end, they all go old-fashioned, and rejoin for the sake of the kiddies. It is perhaps a bit shameful of a reviewer to criticize a play which was written for one purpose--to stay...