Word: boons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Large black pills!" snorted counsel for the Premier. "A boon to the medical profession! This man was committing abortion on you - was that the idea...
That cycle of naughty dramas which began with Twin Beds and lasted through Getting Gertie's Garter and Up In Mabel's Room proved a boon to Hugh O'Connell. He was the drunk who always went to bed in the wrong room. In this time-tested sequence, he proudly recalls one trick which never failed to convulse his audience. Slowly pulling off his pants he would fling them into the chandelier. ''After that," he says, ''I could just lay back and rest for about five minutes." The Racket (1927) and Gentlemen...
...kill him, thus sending his soul into the Invisible. In the After Life, Bill meets his old A. E. F. top sergeant, who accompanies him back to watch his own funeral. Bill is properly impressed with the obsequies, but it soon becomes evident that his death is not the boon to his family he had hoped. His $50,000 insurance does not prevent Mrs. Trent's being suspected of murder, does not help his daughter out of an extra-marital scrape. But ghostly Bill keeps wandering around and praying, finally sets things to rights...
...kerosene while the college man enjoyed the mellow light of gas. Perhaps the climax of their attempts at home rule came, however, when a determined bloo passed a bill calling for an appropriation sufficient to defray building a covered walk between Amherst and Smith. No evidence of this proposed boon to mankind a visible today, but the measure carried its own marks of perpetually since the outraged townspeople, in session assembled during the summer vacation, summarily--and the students claimed unconstitutionality--deprived the latter of the suffrage...
...henchman, the suave cracksman is beset by the police who search for X. How can he protect himself? He must find X, he cannily reasons. Moreover, if he finds X, he will be in a most strategic position to give up his evil ways and claim the boon of love which he had already won from the Commissioner's daughter...