Word: crackers
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Chaplain Phillips, was brief, simple (see p. 8).∙ ¶ As custom requires, Vice President Curtis gave a State dinner at the Mayflower Hotel last week for President Hoover. Forty-four other guests attended including Harvey Firestone, Charles Michael Schwab, William Wallace Atterbury, Mrs. Jacob Leander Loose (Kansas City cracker widow). Afterward Vice President Curtis entertained them with a newsreel of a Cabinet meeting and of Will Rogers' cinema Lightnin...
Miriam Hopkins came from Savannah, Ga. but only rarely does her cracker accent slip out onstage. Her original intention was to become a dancer, but she broke her ankle after appearing in the first Music Box Revue. His Majesty's Car is her twelfth theatrical engagement, including one year with the Theatre Guild. She has no hobbies, one wirehaired fox terrier, one husband-Playwright Austin Parker (Week End), Cornellian, Wartime ambulance driver, flyer in the Lafayette Escadrille. She looks girlish onstage, thirtyish off (exact age secret...
...prove his political mastery was to have Patrick Brett O'Sullivan, onetime Congressman, named chairman of the State Committee and Joseph H. Tone, secretary. Promising the Republicans "a whale of a fight," he hurried back to his Yale Review office at New Haven, prepared for an old-fashioned "cracker barrel" campaign...
...conclusion reached by Dr. & Mrs. Benedict was that the popular notion that the calory demand of the brain is proportionate to its labor, is false. An oyster cracker or a half-peanut would sustain Albert Einstein's brain while doing intensive work on his field equations for one hour, the same number of calories would furnish a parlor maid only energy enough to dust a desk for five minutes...