Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story shows Sally Eilers declining to sell liquor for the bootlegging hat-check overlord as she consents at his request to go to a playboy's party. Irritably chaste, she accepts the use of an empty apartment where the returning owner (Ben Lyon) finds her in bed. True love is instantaneous. Menaces appear in the persons of the hat-check overlord who "frames" her, and the scandal sheet editor who is part of her past. They operate to defer the marriage until the editor is found dead and Ben Lyon is arrested for the murder. When this mistake...
...Dust (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a rowdy exposition of bed manners on a rubber plantation back of Saigon, French Indo-China. In the persons of Jean Harlow and Clark Gable, impersonating a harlot and a lusty planter, two predatory carnivores are brought together, happily rend each other...
...round-an achievement never equaled in the U. S. The Metropolitan Opera visited San Francisco three times-with Calve, Melba, Eames, Schumann-Heink, Fremstad, Gadski, Sembrich. Caruso, the de Reszkes. Early one morning during the third visit the earth started rumbling and quaking, knocked the entire company out of bed, frightened Enrico Caruso so badly that even though he was offered $25,000 he would not go back to 'Frisco...
That night Lily Pons hung opposite her bed one of the cheap paper strips on which the Metropolitan advertises its performances. To her, more than to anyone else, so great a success seemed fabulous. Only a few months before she had been singing with a second-rate opera company in Montpellier on the Riviera, wondering whether to follow the advice of Maria Gay, an oldtime Carmen who had stopped at the opera house and urged her to go to Manhattan so that Giulio Gatti-Casazza could hear...
...memorable June night last year Chicago's biggest bankers worked and haggled until commuters were tumbling out of bed to catch early trains (TIME, June 15, 1931). Their work averted a Chicago catastrophe. Shaky Foreman-State National Bank was absorbed by Melvin Alvah Traylor's First National, and National Bank of the Republic by General Charles Gates Dawes's Central Trust...