Word: benefits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Complications developed from the old Belasco play Shore Leave are of the boy-meets-girl, boy-loses-girl formula. The wind-up is a benefit show on board a freighter: boys-get-girls...
...second paper of the Fall of 1903 a general editorial was printed for the benefit of incoming Freshmen. Here the stress is on the "after life" and its responsibilities...
...regret the refusal of the University to accept the Hanfstaengl offer of a Munich Scholarship. The petty question of manners and formality is not at all revelant to the actual issue of the case: namely, whether or not student would derive benefit from such European study...
...were all about. An expert winter sportsman, he watched the fancy skaters, wagged his grey beard with approval when Germany's Karl Schafer got the gold medal. ¶U. S. Columnist Westbrook Pegler arrived from London, reasoned that the miserable showing by the U. S. might be a benefit in disguise. Wrote he: "If the trip had been called off, the firm-jawed, clean-limbed, clear-eyed American athletes would have felt that they had been denied a great honor and privilege, to say nothing of a free trip to Europe, and might have blamed the Jews for that...
...what hundreds of similar farces have taught cinemaddicts to expect, but the gags are new and Director Leo McCarey keeps them sputtering across the screen at firecracker speed. Funniest scenes: Lloyd learning to box from MacFarland's tough sparring partner (Lionel Stander); teaching the dowager patron of a benefit bout how to duck a punch; knocking out Champion MacFarland, whose seconds have accidentally given him a sleeping potion just before the fight. It Had to Happen (Twentieth Century-Fox) is about a group of glossy New Yorkers who exist only in the imaginations of writers like Rupert Hughes, from...