Word: young
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newly-elected Republican Governors and Senators were to have taken part. Other Lincoln's Birthday engagements at home detained several eligibles, but the Grand Ballroom resounded with self-congratulation and party hope, and plenty of Republican renascents held forth. They were toastmastered by Illinois' heroic young C. Wayland ("Curley") Brooks, unsuccessful candidate for Governor in 1936, who looks and sounds just like Crooner Harry Richman. Blushful in his bows, but silent because he was still engaged in his second prosecution of Tammany's Jimmy Hines (which may keep his name alive this year) was New York...
Plain, long-nosed, sandy-haired young Governor Ray Baldwin of Connecticut, who has a grand bass voice and reintroduced "frugality" to the U. S. vocabulary last month, made the statement of the evening. Said he: "There is no substitute for a good job in private industry...
...rest of Belgium and set it up as an autonomous state. Many pro-German Flemings were arrested for treason and imprisoned after the War and as long as King Albert sat on the throne, they had no hope of securing their freedom. Two years ago, however, broad-minded young King Leopold set out to unify his nation before another war, succeeded in having Paul van Zeeland, then Premier, push through Parliament a general amnesty granting full pardon to the post-War Flemish traitors...
...Young Robert Lane Anderson, who took over the Marion, Va. Democrat (circ. 1,400) and the Republican Smyth County News (circ. 1,600, both printed in the same plant) from his father, Novelist Sherwood Anderson, in 1932. An able graduate of several big city newsrooms, Publisher Anderson repeatedly urges his cattle-raising readers to go in for purebred stock and baits the power company for lower electric rates. He has lately installed a one-man photographic and engraving department that feeds his papers shots of local rabbit hunters, sorority initiations, farmers' wives in town to buy perfume. Best-played...
...Must Love Someone (by Jack Kirkland & Leyla Georgie; produced by Jack Kirkland) tells of six fly young ladies who, at the turn of the century, made up a Florodora Sextet.* In Act I, along with six swains, they render Tell Me, Pretty Maiden quite fetchingly; then for the rest of the show they gallivant with various admirers whose attentions go considerably beyond candy, books and flowers. One Pretty Maiden goes in for blackmail; another enjoys watching her aged suitor tumble down a flight of steps; a third is kept by a pal of the Mayor's; a fourth gets...