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 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.

He was elected to the National Academy of Design as an Associate in the oil class in 1931 ( after receiving his first Ranger Fund Purchase Prize at the Academy in 1930 ), and elevated to Academicianship in 1940.

The apparatus used by gymnasts was once a common sight in American gyms, but about 1930 it was dropped in favor of games.

that the amplitude of the variation was considerably less than the amplitude of the variation in the infrared emission as measured by Pettit and Nicholson ( 1930 ) and Pettit ( 1935 ) ; ;

The latter now furnishes the area with electricity distributed from a modern sub-station at Manchester Depot which was put into operation February 19, 1930 and was improved in January 1942 by the installation of larger transformers.

To Rickards, a 52-year-old veteran 30 years in the air, it was an old story: His plane was being hijacked in mid-flight again much as it had happened in 1930, when Peruvian rebels made him land a Ford tri-motor at Arequipa.

Winners had been announced three months earlier ; however that was changed in the second ceremony of the Academy Awards in 1930.

The 1 / 4 abacus, which is suited to decimal calculation, appeared circa 1930, and became widespread as the Japanese abandoned hexadecimal weight calculation which was still common in China.

In 1930 the Lauberhorn Rennen ( Lauberhorn Race ), was run for the first time on the Lauberhorn above Wengen ; the equally demanding Hahnenkamm was first run in the same year in Kitzbühl, Austria.

Her first appearance in a full-length novel was in The Murder at the Vicarage in 1930.

A more detailed account of how the Ashes were given to Ivo Bligh was outlined by his wife, the Countess of Darnley, in 1930 during a speech at a cricket luncheon.

As in 1930, the 1934 series was decided in the final Test at The Oval.

Iuliu Maniu ( 1873 – 1953 ) was prime minister with an agrarian cabinet from 1928 to 1930, but the Great Depression made proposed reforms impossible.

It was included from 1926 to 1930 in Okeh Records ' catalog, which typically concentrated strongly on blues and jazz.

It was recorded with musical accompaniment for the first time in 1930 by Fiddlin ' John Carson, although to another folk hymn named " At the Cross ", not to " New Britain ".

In 1930, the book was adapted as an Oscar-winning film of the same name, directed by Lewis Milestone.

In 1930, an American film of the novel was made, directed by Lewis Milestone.

Although filmed in color, instead of black and white as the earlier 1930 film adaptation was, the wasted and desolated landscapes and environment are very effectively conveyed.

It was first performed in Leipzig on 9 March 1930.

An early season in which Roma made a large mark was the 1930 – 31 championship, the club finished as runners-up behind Juventus.

Abano Terme ( known as Abano Bagni until 1930 ) is a town and comune in the province of Padua, in the Veneto region, Italy, on the eastern slope of the Colli Euganei ; it is 10 kilometers southwest by rail from Padua.

On the edges of Barcelonnette and Jausiers there are several houses and villas of colonial style ( known as maisons mexicaines ), constructed by emigrants to Mexico who returned to France between 1870 and 1930.

The Branch Davidians ( also known as " The Branch ") are a Protestant sect that originated in 1955 from a schism in the Davidian Seventh Day Adventists (" Davidians "), a reform movement that began within the Seventh-day Adventist Church (" Adventists ") around 1930.

* Robert Atkins ( 1930 – 2003 ), known for the Atkins diet

Although he is best known for discovering the dwarf planet Pluto in 1930, the first object to be discovered in what would later be identified as the Kuiper belt, Tombaugh also discovered many asteroids ; he also called for serious scientific research of unidentified flying objects.

In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission in 2005 changed channelization and licensing costs in a nearby band ( 1920 MHz – 1930 MHz, or 1. 9 GHz ), known as Unlicensed Personal Communications Services ( UPCS ), allowing DECT devices to be sold in the U. S. with only minimal changes.

The largest oil field in the lower 48 states, the East Texas oil field, was not discovered until 1930, when wildcatter Columbus Marion Joiner ( more commonly known as " Dad " Joiner ) drilled the Daisy Bradford No. 3 well, in Rusk County, Texas.

His best known and most substantial work is the 23 completed comic books in The Adventures of Tintin series, which he wrote and illustrated from 1929 until his death in 1983, although he was also responsible for other well-known comic book series such as Quick & Flupke ( 1930 – 1940 ) and Jo, Zette and Jocko ( 1936 – 1957 ).

Iraq holds a special distinction in the history of geography: a clay tablet generally accepted as " the earliest known map " was unearthed in 1930 during the excavation of Ga-Sur at Nuzi Yorghan Tepe, near the towns of Harran and Kirkuk, north of the site of Babylon.

Cocteau is best known for his novel Les Enfants terribles ( 1929 ), and the films Blood of a Poet ( 1930 ), Les Parents terribles ( 1948 ), Beauty and the Beast ( 1946 ), and Orpheus ( 1949 ).

Cocteau is best known for his novel Les Enfants terribles ( 1929 ), and the films Blood of a Poet ( 1930 ), Les Parents terribles ( 1948 ), Beauty and the Beast ( 1946 ), and Orpheus ( 1949 ).

* 1930 – Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of the Boulder Dam ( now known as Hoover Dam ).

John Michael Frankenheimer ( February 19, 1930 – July 6, 2002 ) was an American film and television director known for social dramas and action / suspense films.

One male, known as Old Tom, was reportedly spotted every winter between the 1840s and 1930 off New South Wales, Australia.

* 1930 – Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march, known as the Salt March, to the sea in defiance of British opposition, to protest the British monopoly on salt.

In contrast to Niels Bohr, who proposed a statistical version of the conservation laws to explain the phenomenon, Pauli hypothesized an undetected particle that he called a " neutron " in keeping with convention employed for naming both the proton and the electron, which in 1930 were known to be respective products for alpha and beta decay.

The Nation of Islam was founded in Detroit, Michigan in July, 1930 by Wallace Fard Muhammad, also known as W. D. Fard Muhammad ( 1877 – 1934 ).

Since then, former next-door neighbor RKO closed up shop in 1957 ; Warner Bros. ( whose old Sunset Boulevard studio was sold to Paramount in 1949 as a home for KTLA ) moved to Burbank in 1930 ; Columbia joined Warners in Burbank in 1973 then moved again to Culver City in 1989 ; and the Pickford-Fairbanks-Goldwyn-United Artists lot, after a lively history, has been turned into a post-production and music-scoring facility for Warners, known simply as " The Lot ".

In 1930, RCA agreed to occupy the yet-to-be-constructed landmark building of the Rockefeller Center complex, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, which in 1933 became known as the RCA building, now the GE Building.

The second version, painted in 1930 and known as the " ordinary coat of arms ", and the third version, painted in 1932 and known as the " embellished coat of arms ", were both used until 2000.

In the 1890 – 1930 era part of Toronto ' east-end district now known as " the Beach " changed from a " cottage colony " of summer second-homes into a metropolitan suburb dominated by the middle classes.

Stephen Joshua Sondheim (; born March 22, 1930 ) is an American composer and lyricist known for his contributions to musical theatre.

RKO Radio Pictures released Danger Lights with Jean Arthur, Louis Wolheim, and Robert Armstrong on August 21, 1930 in a 65mm widescreen process known as NaturalVision, invented by film pioneer George K. Spoor.

On November 13, 1930, United Artists released The Bat Whispers directed by Roland West in a 70mm widescreen process known as Magnafilm.