Word: beane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...systems-the Philadelphia system and the Boston system. It was a difference in play occasioned by the smaller courts on which the inhabitants of Quakertown were accustomed to play. Thus the Philadelphians developed a game that included a vast array of wall shots, while the sons of the bean and the cod were quite content to play to the front wall...
...himself to death in his South Bend home. Active direction of the company had already passed to the two vice presidents, Paul Gray Hoffman, an able salesmanager who first made a fortune for himself as a distributor in California, and Harold S. Vance, in charge of production. With Ashton Bean of White, they formed a triumvirate of receivers who never let their organization slip an inch...
...President Vance. Though sales so far this year are up 38%, Studebaker, like most independents, is still losing money. Despite a modest profit in the June quarter, nine-month figures showed a total of $666,600 in red. But there has never been any doubt that Messrs. Vance, Hoffman & Bean would eventually work out a reorganization...
...Paramount). This version of Alice Hegan Rice's homely novel of the 1890's provides a cinema debut for able Actress Pauline Lord (Anna Christie, The Late Christopher Bean). As a poor goodwife in a decrepit shack, her activities include mothering five moppets, hoping her husband (Donald Meek) will return from the Klondike with gold, accepting charity from a rich girl and the rich girl's suitor. Mrs. Wiggs befriends a fluttery spinster (ZaSu Pitts) whom she aids in acquiring a husband (W. C. Fields) from a matrimonial agency. Mrs. Wiggs's second son dies...
Things come to a head when Judge Priest, temporarily disbanded, helps defend a stranger on trial for the knifing of one Elisworth Brown, local dude and "jelly-bean" par excellence. The jury seems ready to admit that Master Brown richly deserves his portion, but nevertheless is prone to regard the unsociable defendant, who probably did not fight for the Stars and Bars, with a jaundiced eye. Judge Priest turns the tables in masterful fashion. While the strains of "Dixie" are wafted into the hushed courtroom, the parson, (Henry B. Walthall) comes forward as character witness on behalf of the defendant...