Word: lorna
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Holden) has a beautiful pair of hands, which he can use to equal effect playing the violin or smashing a face. The violin seems likely to win out with thoughtful Joe until Manager Tom Moody (Adolphe Menjou), threatened with the loss of a promising meal ticket, gets his girl, Lorna Moon (Barbara Stanwyck), to stiffen Joe's spine. In Clifford Odets' play, Joe never got much out of his fighting hands but a shiny roadster that he piled up against a tree. In the cinema Joe fares better...
...House floor with one brief, effective literary allusion. When Representative Kleberg of Texas tried to require that the President's reorganization be approved by a positive vote of Congress (rather than subject to a negative veto), Mr. Warren asked his colleagues: "Have you forgotten the story of Lorna Doone...
...produces 1,000 lbs. of butterfat in a year, that is good news for her owner, big news for dairymen. Last week the American Jersey Cattle Club was celebrating the biggest news yet: a new world's butterfat champion. Six-year-old, 1,000-lb. Sybil Tessie Lorna 996685, a Jersey owned by L. A. Hulbert of Independence, Ore., had produced 17,121 lbs. of milk in the official 305-day test period, enough butterfat to outweigh herself by 20 lbs. Previous holder of the all-breed record was Aaltje Salo Hengerveld Segis 823991, a Vermont Holstein who produced...
...Lorna Doone (Sun. 8 p. m. CBS). R. D. Blackmore's novel for adolescents and romantics dramatized for adults and realists by Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre...
Winner of the 1937 Cruft's in London last week was a Labrador retriever, Cheverells Ben of Banchory owned by Lorna, Countess Howe...