Word: em
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years, he had worked for two months last summer at Remington Rand's Middletown, Conn, plant as a $9-per-day-&-expenses "night watchman.'' Asked what references he had offered, "Chowderhead" Cohen grunted: "They never ask for no references in this line of work. Tell 'em anything. Tell 'em nuttin'!" Witness Cohen flushed angrily when asked if he had ever been convicted of crime. "I got a right to earn an honest living," he shouted. "I refuse to answer that question. They locked me up, this committee here, four times for vagrancy." "What committee...
...victorious Franklin Roosevelt (TIME, Nov. 16). Last week, with a double master stroke, he capitulated to the demands of Newspaper Guildsmen, who had kept his Seattle Post-Intelligencer closed since last August (TIME, Aug. 24 et seq.) * and, on the principle of if-you-can't-lick-'em-hire-'em, put in as PI's new publisher Franklin Roosevelt's 36-year-old son-in-law John Boettiger. According to Associated Press, Mrs. Boettiger, the former Anna Roosevelt Ball, is slated to be women's editor of the PI. If Mrs. Boettiger takes this...
...comedian. It is a misconceived notion that a person has to be unlettered in order to be funny. Look at one of the greatest humorists in the world today--Stephen Leacock. Why, that man holds degrees from Oxford, and he taught Political Science at McGill . . . Yet he knocks 'em in the aisles once he gets started...
They are her cousins, Rita and Eric Parker, who want Jane's assistance in claiming a fortune that has been left her. They launch a safari under the guidance of a bring-'em-back-alive hunter named Captain Fry who plots to capture Tarzan (Johnny Weissmuller). After the usual adventures, they find Tarzan and Jane, move in with them in their treetop "town house," whose butler is Cheetah, the chimpanzee. Cheetah understands Jane's words far better than does Tarzan. Though they have been living together for four years, Tarzan has been able to learn, only...
...brought Mr. Thurtle $500. About $80 was paid for the letter in which Lawrence explained "my abnormality,' which caused him to retire at 35 and refuse knighthood at the hands of King George V. "I wasn't a King or a Prime Minister, but I made 'em and played with 'em" was the epistolary boast of Lawrence of Arabia. "Anyone who has gone up as I went and seen so much of the inside of the top of the world might well lose his aspirations and get weary of the ordinary motives & actions which had moved...