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 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.

The film won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1930 for its producer Carl Laemmle Jr., and an Academy Award for Directing for Lewis Milestone.

Saunders received solo screen credit for the original story and won an Academy Award for Best Story in 1930.

The country had fully democratic elections in 1930, won by Sténio Vincent.

By 1930, modernism had won a place in the establishment, including the political and artistic establishment, although by this time modernism itself had changed.

Sir Thomas Sean Connery ( born 25 August 1930 ) is a Scottish actor and producer who has won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards ( one of them being a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award ) and three Golden Globes ( including the Cecil B. DeMille Award and a Henrietta Award ).

In 1930 – 31 they won promotion as well as the FA Cup, beating Birmingham

In 1930, Nuvolari won his first RAC Tourist Trophy ( he won one more time in 1933 ).

Although Barcelona won the very first Liga in 1929 and Real Madrid won their first titles in 1932 and 1933, it was Athletic Bilbao that set the early pace winning Primera División in 1930, 1931, 1934 and 1936.

Feijenoord won their first Dutch Cup in 1930 by scoring the only goal in a derby final against Excelsior.

It was won by Uruguay, who had won the inaugural competition in 1930, clinching the cup by beating the hosts Brazil 2 – 1 in the deciding match of the four-team final group ( this was the only tournament not decided by a one-match final ).

Shearer won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in The Divorcee, and a series of highly successful pre-Code films followed, including Let Us Be Gay ( 1930 ), Strangers May Kiss ( 1931 ), A Free Soul ( 1931 ), Private Lives ( 1931 ) and Riptide ( 1934 ).

In May 1930, Western Electric won an Austrian lawsuit that voided protection for certain Tri-Ergon patents, helping bring Tobis-Klangfilm to the negotiating table.

In 1974, the cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker won the Pulitzer prize for The Denial of Death ( 1973 ), which was based on Rank ’ s post-Freudian writings, especially Will Therapy ( 1929 – 31 ), Psychology and the Soul ( 1930 ) and Art and Artist ( 1932 / 1989 ).

The club won the Copa del Rey four times in a row between 1930 and 1933 and they were also La Liga runners-up in 1932 and 1933.

The year prior to Garbutt's appointment was not a success for the club ( Athletic Bilbao had previously won the Copa del Rey four times consecutively between 1930 and 1933 ) as they finished 4th ( in 1934-1935 ) despite having been league winners the year before in 1934.

He won handily in November and was reelected four more times before being defeated for renomination in 1930 by Oscar Lovette.

The increased complexity of the superheterodyne circuit compared to earlier regenerative or tuned radio frequency receiver designs slowed its use, but the advantages of the intermediate frequency for selectivity and static rejection eventually won out ; by 1930, most radios sold were ' superhets '.

" Lewis, a liberal who in 1930 had won the Nobel Prize in literature, portrayed a genuine American dictator on the Hitler model.

After losing in the 1930 Republican primary, Dirksen won the nomination and the congressional seat in 1932, and was re-elected seven times.

Tony Canzoneri won the lightweight boxing championship in 1930.