Word: nat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...close match with Andover Saturday, the Freshman swimming team barely defeated their opponents, $3.22. Nat Lemke, of Exeter, equalled the record in the 100-yard breast stroke with a time of one minute, 16 1-5 seconds...
...highest-paid funnyman in the U. S. and a member of the Cinema Code Authority with President Emeritus Lowell of Harvard, his performances require such elaborate preparations that he can appear in only one a year. William Anthony McGuire, George S. Kaufman, Robert Sherwood, George Oppenheimer, Arthur Sheekman, Nat Perrin and Cantor himself collaborated on story or dialog for Roman Scandals. Several thousand showgirls received screen-tests for the chorus. The picture cost $1,100,000. The result is an extraordinary rigmarole containing everything from chariot races to a torch song by Ruth Etting...
Blackbirds (by Nat N. Dorfman, Mann Holiner and Lew Leslie; songs by Mann Holiner, Alberta Nichols. Ned Washington, Joseph and Victor Young; produced by Sepia Guild Players Inc.) is the third of Lew Leslie's anthologies of the cabaret talent in Manhattan's Negro Harlem...
...Sixth Louisiana District. The circumstances of her choice should be interesting to all those who insist that Fascism can never come in the United States. Mrs. Kemp was the only candidate; the Senator had insured that this would be the case by forbidding any primary elections in the district. Nat Tycer, a courageous judge who issued an injunction against the balloting, did not succeed by this mere constitutional device, and he called out several hundred special deputies to insure that it would not take place. Well, the Senator called off the election in these parishes; it did not take place...
...first visit in nine years was stately Maxine Elliott (Jessie Dermot), 62, once famed as the most beauteous U. S. actress. Trained by Dion Boucicault, one of the numerous wives and leading ladies of Comedian Nat Good win, she became a star in 1903. When Ethel Barrymore met her in 1903, she exclaimed: "The Venus de Milo - with arms!" Maxine Elliott toured the U. S.. Australia, and England, won the favor of Britain's merry monarch Edward VII. A shrewd business woman who multiplied her earnings, she abruptly left the stage in 1920, eleven years after building Manhattan...