Word: journals
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...beginning," wrote the Paris Journal, "of the deliberate policy announced by Mr. Hoover in Boston during his campaign, aimed at the exclusion of foreign competition by the United States. ... In matters of business the Americans are not given to sentimentality...
...Chicago performance of Magda he was mentioned by one reviewer who said: "Barrymore walked about the stage as if he had been all dressed up and then forgotten." Considering himself a histrionic failure, he became a newspaper artist. Editor Arthur Brisbane fired him from the New York Evening Journal. Whenever he was out of a job he sent telegrams to his sister Ethel asking for money. Another source of income in bad times was his friendship with Frank Butler, a newspaper reporter who had a detachable gold tooth that could be pawned for 70?. Barrymore and Butler often drank...
...Cebu, P. I., readers of Cebu's leading journal, Progress ("a daily of information") read a screaming headline: IGOT, MALE, IS PREGNANT. There followed an account...
...should like to call your earnest attention to an article in the March issue of the Ladies Home, Journal. It is entitled "Easier Motherhood," and its author is Constance L. Todd. The article speaks so eloquently for itself, that no words of praise, description or exhortation in connection with it are necessary from an insignificant person. I think you will be serving a great cause and assisting in the relief of countless daily tragedies if you will give space to a review of this article...
...Author Edna Ferber: "Only the more fantastic and improbable events in this book are true. . . . Anything can have happened in Oklahoma. Practically everything has." Author Ferber, unmarried, 42, was born in Kalamazoo, Mich., of Jewish parents, now lives in Manhattan. A reporter at 17, she worked on the Milwaukee Journal, Chicago Tribune, wrote her first novel, Dawn O'Hara, in 1911. Author Ferber has a creamy complexion and thick black hair, is afraid of thunderstorms. She does all her writing on a typewriter. No ad- mirer of the highbrow, says she: "I have long since ceased trying to write better...