Word: shelleys
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Helen Robbins, socialite wife of Herbert D. Robbins, retired Manhattan drug man (McKesson & Robbins), just home from Europe, approached a customs inspector who was about to examine her luggage. Said she: "There are twelve bottles of liquor in my trunk." Inspector Frank Shelley blinked, stammered: "But why-why did you do this? I never heard of such a case before." Retorted she: "Probably nobody ever thought of doing this before. ... I brought this liquor ... as my small gesture against Prohibition. Now you may go ahead and destroy it." Before a grinning crowd Inspector Shelley did so. "Just like the Boston...
Albert John Galen, 54, onetime cowpuncher, Associate Justice of the State Supreme Court, won the Republican nomination for the Senate over Oliver Hazard Perry ("One Half Pint") Shelley, one-time Montana Prohibition Administrator, Red Lodge publisher. Like Senator Walsh, Nominee Galen is a Roman Catholic. Unlike...
...PROGRESS of youth through the realm of literature is dated by the discovery of the figure which lurk behind each turning in the path. Just as Shelley and the author or "The Way of All Flesh" point the way at certain crossroads, so the smooth-shaven and deeply lined face of Charles Baudelaire at its appointed time looms up like certainty for those who follow the orthodox road to literary sophistication. As the author of this most recent life of Baudelaire notes in his introduction, the "poet maudit" generally appears on the horizon of his American readers during their college...
...clarify the piece?which can be safely categorized neither as burlesque, travesty or satire?audiences were advised through the programs that: "The vagabond who comes into The Tavern is the unmasked Cohan. And yet this vagabond could have been a Wandering Jew, Villon, Rabelais, Shelley, Puck. There is probably no one in America who knows better than he what is effective in the theatre. He is aware . . . just how audiences react to certain things that may be made to happen." Subsequent things that Actor Cohan made to happen were received with robust laughter when the audience was sure of itself...
...play (Courtesan) with but one actress (Elsa Shelley) was presented and ran less than a week...