Word: aprons
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...airport, the movie show was replaced by a ground view of the landing field, with a plane coming down to land. The passengers watched the screen idly, then suddenly came to life. "That's us," someone shouted. It was. Plane and image landed neatly together, taxied toward the apron, where the NBC-RCA mobile unit was parked with its roving eye televising the whole business...
...spectators who saw neither My Man Godfrey nor any of the variants of it since mimeographed in Hollywood, Fifth Avenue Girl may well seem one of the best pictures of the year. Good shot: Mrs. Borden, an apron over her sequins, wooing her husband by industriously scenting the Borden mansion with a succulent pot of Irish stew...
...Master Accountant), has worked in eight banks and sold newspapers in New York, California, Mexico, South America and at the Paris Exposition of 1900. He wears an old straw hat and baggy breeches, drinks "sulfur water" out of a whiskey bottle he carries in his apron pocket. Newsboy Heckman makes his appearance running down the street yelling: "Light's out! Light's out!" He interprets the headlines to suit himself. Last week, by force of invective, he got rid of a Mexican competitor who could read no English and shouted nothing but "Beeg Wreck...
...show business, most working performers belong to unions. The union which is supposed to take care of vaudevillians, night-club entertainers, circus performers and such is the imposingly-named American Federation of Actors. Like other entertainers' unions, the A. F. A. is more or less tied to the apron strings of a mother, the Associated Actors and Artistes of America ("Four A's"). Watchful grandma is the American Federation of Labor. Last week in Manhattan, Mother Four A's had A. F. A. with its pants down ready for a spanking. Grandma stood...
...Brazil can cut loose from Germany's apron strings...