Word: booths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...consequence, he approaches the truth about the trio more nearly than anyone has to date, and at least as nearly as anyone ever will. He does not fail to show Bonfils in his worst lights: he reveals him as a crack-pot miser, who hides behind the ticket booth at his circus so that he will not have to admit his own daughter free; he shows the reader a stupid man, a crooked man, a bully, and a sorry figure. But the other side of the picture is between the covers: Bon blazes out his courage as he takes bullets...
...Chicago's Century of Progress last summer was a sweltering little booth labeled "Anthropometric Laboratory for the Measurement of Man." Many a male & female visitor to the Hall of Social Sciences went in to get measured, answer the queries of Harvard scientists. When the Fair was over the researchers took back to Cambridge data on 3,100 Fairgoers. Harvard's famed Anthropologist Earnest Albert Hooton (Up from the Ape) declared the Chicago material was "the best anthropological cross-section of the American people ever made...
...first floor of Manhattan's dingy West Side Court, busiest in the city, is a dungeon-like room with high dirty windows. A long table, two incredibly battered desks, a telephone booth and a chipped enamel cuspidor make up its office equipment. Around the walls are photographs of unidentified prizefighters and film actresses, a framed obituary of Variety's late Slangster Jack Conway, a yellowed clipping of a newspaper sermon entitled "Success," a picture of a nude dancer with a large ostrich-plume fan, inscribed: ''To the reporters of West Side Court, gratefully and sincerely, Sally...
NELSON D. BOOTH Orange, Conn...
...Cagney trademark, rough treatment of the squooshy sex, is not neglected. In a scene which will feed the starved souls of Back Bay mocha-moochers, Jimmy drags a hopped-up moll across the room by her hair and boots her out the portal with the best kick since Albie Booth's winner of '31. In short, the film will amuse you from start to finish, beauty is represented by the lushy gangster moll, and Margaret Lindsay, Jimmy's true love; the minor character roles are superbly done, and the direction is smooth...