Word: beau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spring Song (by Bella and Samuel Spewack; Max Gordon, producer) shows the misfortunes which overtake the Solomon family, Ma (Helen Zelinskaya), Tillie (Frieda Altaian) and Florrie (Francine Larrimore) when Ma refuses to give Florrie $10 to go to Asbury Park. Deprived of a chance to see her own beau, Florrie goes out with Tillie's. The result of this excursion is a baby and a shotgun wedding. By the time the baby arrives, it is plain that in trying to make her daughters do the right thing, Ma Solomon has made bad matters worse. Florrie's beau marries...
...American Derby, Detroit Derby and Arlington Classic, against the best horses of his age in the country. At the Saratoga yearling sales in 1932, Cavalcade cost his owner $1,200. He is now insured at $200,000, valued at $500,000. His winnings total $126,965. Far below Sun Beau's world record of $376,744 (for five seasons), they are comparable because his prizes were diminished by Depression. If Cavalcade wins the Saratoga Cup, he will be well on his way to equalling Man o' War's record. If he also wins?as horsemen last week considered him likely...
Divorced, Thelma Victoria Maud Colman, English actress; from Ronald Colman, 43, cinemactor (The White Sister, Beau Geste, Bulldog Drummond), after a ten-year separation; in London...
...beau, remembers a rainy night in Paris that brought him a lucky meeting with a beautiful girl of the streets, new to her business. Too late he wants to find her again. Fifteen years after, he sees a beautiful skull in a friend's studio, has an inescapable feeling that it is hers...
Somehow, Geneva has been particularly impotent during the recent succession of European crises. One might expect the usual beau geste, the customary mellow phrase from that superannuated society of diplomats, but even that has been lacking. The reason may be found in the constitution of the organization itself. At its inception, the right to declare war was expressly reserved for each of its members gathered, ostensibly, to outlaw it. Rampant, nationalisms cannot enter a suicide pact cheerfully unless their pistols are loaded with blank cartridges...