For example, in the first editions of the collection The Mysterious Mr Quin ( 1930 ), in the short story " The Soul of the Croupier ," she described " Hebraic men with hook-noses wearing rather flamboyant jewellery "; in later editions the passage was edited to describe " sallow men " wearing same.

On a trip to the excavation site at Ur in 1930, she met her future husband, archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan, a distinguished archaeologist, but her fame as an author far surpassed his fame in archaeology.

By 1930, Agatha Christie found Poirot " insufferable ", and by 1960 she felt that he was a " detestable, bombastic, tiresome, ego-centric little creep ".

In 1930 she published an autobiography, Background with Figures.

In 1930 she was elected a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters ; in 1933 came membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters, which two years later organized the first major retrospective of her work.

The Mary Sudik No. 1, " Wild Mary Sudik ", gusher did not blow until March 25, 1930 — she sprayed an estimated an hour ( 133 L / s ) for the next 11 days.

In 1930, she lost the lead role in the Josef von Sternberg-directed The Blue Angel to her neighbour, Marlene Dietrich.

In 1930 she was employed by Melbourne radio station 3 ??

* 1930 – Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia ( she left on May 5 for the 11, 000 mile flight ).

Many of the ideas about the links between rhymes and historical persons, or events, can be traced back to Katherine Elwes's book The Real Personages of Mother Goose ( 1930 ), in which she linked famous nursery-rhyme characters with real people, on little or no evidence.

From 1902 till 1930, she and Matilda ran Scrooge's empire from his homebase while he was away.

A fight with Scrooge in 1930 ended all relationships between Scrooge and his family and she retired.

Nora Guthrie was eventually committed to the Oklahoma Hospital for the Insane, where she died in 1930 from Huntington's disease.

Under the Hoover administration, she worked on and headed the women's section of the President's Emergency Committee for Employment in 1930, where she worked to gain the cooperation of women's groups for reducing unemployment.

In 1930, she won a contract with Paramount Pictures after having been dropped by both 20th Century and Pathé Exchange.

In 1930, she was known to be Brazil's gem singer, and in 1933 went on to sign a two-year contract with Rádio Mayrink Veiga, becoming the first contract singer in the radio industry history of Brazil.

In 1930 she was cast in The Big Pond, which was filmed in both English and French, and Colbert's fluency in both languages.

Her early films cast her as the girl-next-door but for most of the Pre-Code film era beginning with the 1930 film The Divorcee, for which she won an Oscar for Best Actress, she played sexually liberated women in sophisticated contemporary comedies.

There she took a series of sensual portraits which convinced her husband that she could play the lead in MGM's racy new film, The Divorcee ( 1930 ).

With her first talking film, Anna Christie ( 1930 ), she received an Academy Award nomination.

Garbo had successfully made the transition to talkies and after three less profitable films, Romance ( 1930 ), Inspiration ( 1931 ), and Susan Lenox ( Her Fall and Rise ) ( 1931 ), she performed two of her most famous roles.

In 1930, she was signed by Paramount Pictures to a seven-year contract.

In the 1930 federal census, Elizabeth Weissmüller, age 49, has listed with her, her sons John P. and Peter J., and Peter's wife Dorothy.

As in the US, the initial roadside accommodations were primitive tourist camps, with over a hundred campgrounds listed in Ontario alone on one 1930 provincial road map.

She was listed as divorced in the 1930 United States Census.

Two famous actors have listed Beech Grove as their birthplace — Clifton Webb ( November 19, 1889 – 1966 ) and Steve McQueen ( March 24, 1930 – 1980 ).

In 1930, a Lima directory listed 93 industrial employers with some 8, 000 employees.

The family names listed in the 1900 – 1930 census records reflect the growth and are still found in Murrells Inlet today.

In his last memoir, Hart-Davis listed the books he had edited as: The Second Omnibus Book ( Heinemann ) 1930 ; Then and Now ( Cape ) 1935 ; The Essential Neville Cardus ( Cape ) 1949 ; Cricket All His Life by E. V.

* James Brainerd Taylor ( 1801 – 1829 ), maternal cousin of Brainerd ; born Middle Haddam, Connecticut ; buried in Hampden-Sydney College Church cemetery, Virginia ; obelisk in Union Hill Cemetery, Middle Haddam, Connecticut, and Princeton Cemetery of Nassau Presbyterian Church, Princeton, New Jersey ; Lawrenceville School ( N. J ), Princeton University and Yale Divinity School-educated Second Great Awakening evangelist ; primary founder of Princeton University's Philadelphian Society of Nassau Hall ( 1825 – 1930, now called Princeton Evangelical Fellowship ); one of some 20, 000 Americans listed in Appletons ' Cyclopedia of American Biography ( 6 vol., 1887 – 89 ).

Since 1930 Newman has not been listed as having any permanent population by the US Census.

In 1930 the United States Census listed Newman has having a population of 10 people.

In March 2004, one week after Coates ' death, the Gerontology Research Group reported that a register of Wiiliam J. Coates with his parents and siblings in the 1930 United States census listed his age as 18 years old.

Pollack left Victor in late 1929 and subsequently recorded for Hit of the Week ( 1930 ), the above listed dime store labels ( 1930 – 1931 ), Victor ( 1933 ), Columbia ( 1933 – 1934 ), Brunswick, Vocalion and Variety ( 1936-37 ), and Decca ( 1937 – 1938 ).

In 1984, structures built before 1930 were listed on the National Register of Historic Places as St. Lawrence University-Old Campus Historic District.

The 1930 Quigley Poll, a survey of film exhibitors, listed Haines as the top box office attraction in the country.

The year 1930 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Both of his parents were listed as Mulatto in Census records before and after their marriage ; according to Yerby he had a combination of Caucasian, Cherokee, and African-American ancestors, though in the 1930 and 1940 Censuses of the United States the family members were listed simply as ' Negro '.

De la Faille, who had contacted the Van Gogh estate, changed his mind and listed the paintings in Les faux van Goghs ( The False Van Goghs ), published 1930.

The union building Nymble was designed by leading Swedish modernists Uno Åhrén and Sven Markelius in 1928 and inaugurated in 1930 ; it is significant as one of the first examples of modernist architecture in Sweden and has status as a listed building.

It is listed in A Dictionary of Color as one of the three major variations of lavender in 1930 along with lavender blue ( shown below ) and lavender ( also shown below ).

Lavender blue is listed in A Dictionary of Color as one of the three major variations of lavender in 1930 along with lavender gray ( shown above ) and lavender ( shown below ).

Amongst those often listed as ' members ' of a Hitlerian Bayreuth Circle are Cosima Wagner ( d. 1930 ), second wife of the composer, Winifred Wagner, wife of the composer's son Siegfried, and H. S. Chamberlain.

Helen Morlok ( born May 19, 1930 in Lansing, Michigan, died October 31, 2003 in Lansing, Michigan ) is one of the four sisters listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's oldest identical quadruplets.

It was first listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1930.