Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...film shows the amazing social changes during the past two decades. Starting with the War, it carries through the times of unrest, strikes and the jazz age. It recalls the boom and the crash--and the thousand and one things that brought bewilderment to the average man who looked at the constant changes...
...elements that make for the success of "David Harum" are all taken from an earlier era when the words "boom" and "depression" were blessedly technical terms. James Cruze, the director, is the man who directed. "The Covered Wagon." The story is almost Mark Twain style. The star is a product of rural America...
David Harum (Fox) offers admirers of Will Rogers an opportunity to watch him whittling a fence-post, driving a sulky, singing ta-rah-rah-rah-boom-de-aye and swindling a clergyman. David Harum is a New England horse-trader and village banker. Part rascal, part philanthropist, he makes it his business to further a romance between his shy clerk (Kent Taylor) and his pretty protege (Evelyn Venable). He accomplishes his purpose by trading to her a horse named Cupid, suitable for sentimental buggy rides because he balks...
Founded in 1862 three years after the fabulous Comstock Lode was opened in Nevada, the San Francisco Mining Exchange was the vortex of a feverish speculative mining boom that burned the land or two decades after the Civil War. During the 1870's while the Floods, Mackays, O'Briens, et al. were plucking some $750,000,000 in gold and silver from the Comstock Lode, police guarded the portals of Mining Exchange as the public clamored to buy, buy, buy. Bodie was the favorite with Eastern investors and caused them more grief than any other stock...
Dick and Rose met in an arty Manhattan boarding house. Dick wore: spectacles, came from the Middle West, "wanted to write"; Rose was a pretty Southerner who thought she could act. Instead they got married. Dick changed his investments, and the Coolidge boom kept him thinking he was clever and well off. Rose turned their first attempt at a child into an abortion. When the crash came they went to Paris to save money. There Rose got in with people Dick disliked. She and Dick quarreled. But inertia, a wise doctor and common sense brought them together again. They went...