Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three times the King repeated: "I accept her betrothal to myself from thee, and take her under my care and bind myself to offer her my protection, and ye who are present bear witness...
...counter trading there is no fixed brokerage commission as in the exchanges, and dealers generally charge what the traffic will bear. Most o-t-c dealers prefer to sell as traders because the "spread" between what they paid for a security and what they sell it for can be far greater than are most commissions. In both cases, however, customers have little means of telling whether they are quoted a fair price or charged a fair commission...
...which is unlike any other in the world. A few miles from Racine, President Herbert Johnson has let Wright build him a house which lies along the prairie in four slim wings. A huge chimney with fireplaces on four sides is in the focal living room. At Bear Run, Pa., Wright has just finished his most beautiful job, "Fallingwater," a house cantilevered over a waterfall for Edgar Kaufmann of Pittsburgh...
...fancy, flouncy ladies, sporting gents, muddy boulevards, the Widow O'Leary (Alice Brady) settles her brood in the pine-shantied "Patch," takes in washing, raises her boys, accumulates hard-earned comfort and Daisy, the cow. That Daisy's right hind hoof packs a punch that will bear watching is evident when she kicks young Bob (Tom Brown) into the arms of Gretchen, the house girl (June Storey), to settle the future of the youngest O'Leary. The eldest. Jack (Don Ameche), becomes a lawyer with lofty principles, low income. Dion (Tyrone Power), heir to the blarneying ways...
...sprinkled in amongst the comics. After the curtain rises again, Letty Madison slowly but effectively outwits the motley gang of variously disguised crooks that has taken possession of her old Connecticut homestead to perpetrate a kidnapping act. The team consists of an unemployed minister, a woman who pretends to bear the baby several days before it is kidnaped, the doctor who attends at the bogus birth, and a nurse. The "mother" gets excessively nervous, so the minister, the brains of the organization, orders her extermination. Previously, however, Letty has announced herself to be the mother of the unhappy offspring, thereby...