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...vampirish influence of a fading harridan of the theatre (Josephine Victor). How the aging harpy enslaves the girl, breaks up her engagement, holds her captive even after death, is the rest of the sad story. Redhaired, ingratiating Theodore Newton (Dead End), appeared as the luckless suitor, tries in vain to better matters with dignified restraint. Gloria Dickson, the Pocatello, Idaho girl who stepped from the Federal Theatre into Hollywood fame (They Won't Forget), endowed the young actress with dazzling blondness and a fresh, strong prairie accent. As her sister, Edith Barrett, despite the limp and a tendency...
...whom Father Richard had excommunicated for deserting his wife and remarrying another, Father Richard died in a cholera epidemic of 1832. He left a library of 3,000 volumes, then probably the Midwest's largest, and a number of letters for which his current biographers have hunted in vain...
...suspicious advertising trade could look in vain through Woman's Day for signs that A. & P. intended to use its magazine for editorial propagandizing in favor of chain stores. The Robinson-Patman Act was designed in part to end the evils of advertising allowances from manufacturer to retailer, and Publisher Hanson has stoutly denied that Woman's Day is an attempt to salvage these lost allowances. However, six manufacturers from whom A. & P. buys goods are represented in the first issue of Woman...
...only did Tom Heflin contest the election; he fought it all the way back to the U. S. Senate; he buttonholed his ex-colleagues until they granted him extraordinary permission to state his case on the floor of the Senate, which he did for 5½ purple hours- in vain. In 1934 he swallowed his pride, ran for Congressman from the Fifth Alabama District, the comparatively lowly job he had held for eight and a half terms (1904-21) before he found his way to the Senate. Ungrateful constituents placed Congressional Candidate Heflin no better than third, so he rushed...
...think it is a trial balloon," Wild said, "to see how much effect the horrors of the Japanese situation have had upon the American public." He did not believe that the situation would lead to a modification of the Neutrality Bill, however, as "the President has tried in vain three times before to get a flexible bill through the Congress...