Word: watsonism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...though he is the town's richest and noisiest citizen, his love-making under the trees is too unctuous for pretty, sensitive Joyce. Her falsehood also reveals that the young college hockey player whom she thought she loved is not so ardent as he seemed. James Stevens (Minor Watson), the tweedy young family lawyer, meets the issue by claiming to be the prospective father. He has loved Joyce all along and now proposes marriage. She blissfully agrees, and has the girlish pleasure of telling him that she is still virgin. In the meantime a huge, philosophic iceman has similarly...
...WATSON...
Thus racing away, his lips uncomfortably sealed, Senator James Eli Watson, Republican Leader, was overtaken in the corridor by a newsgatherer who panted his question: "Say. Senator?is everything? in the bill?going up?" Leader Watson, unable to resist temptation longer, shot back as he hurried on: "No, not everything. Some things are coming down? but not many...
...Watson is too indifferent and too transparent...
...miles from Kittery to Marblehead. Oldster Team. England last week chose four oldsters, one youngster for the null man Cup team which will play in the U. S. at Forest Hills, L. I., next month. The team: Mrs. D. C. Shepherd-Barron, Mrs. P. H. Covefl, Mrs. M. H. Watson, Mrs. L. R. C. (Peggy Saunders) Mitchell, Miss Betty Nuthall. Youngsters passed over: Eileen Bennett, Joan Fry, Joan Ridley. Fight. Because he seemed to have no intention of carrying out an old contract with Arthur Bulow, his onetime manager, Heavyweight Max Schmeling was forbidden to box in New York State...