Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nominee for Mayor of New York, attempted to picket a Brooklyn furniture factory in defiance of an injunction. Super-solemn Communist Minor, 49, thrice married, is the son of a Texas judge. For years he edited the Daily Worker, drew savage cartoons for the old Masses. On a soap box before the NRA factory, he yelled at its workers: "Comrades! Most of you are non-union members. You must earn a living. But don't scab on your fellow workers. Your factory carries a picture of the Blue Eagle, of course. They all do. But the Blue Eagle...
...McCarthy to have her hair marcelled, lunch at the Waldorf-Astoria in a silk dress. To exploit Bureau of Missing Persons, First National promised, in advertisements, to pay $10,000 to Manhattan's missing Judge Joseph F. Crater in case he asked for it in person at the box office. Detectives from the Manhattan Police Department's Bureau of Missing Persons-whose Captain John H. Ayers wrote Missing Men on which the picture is based-were on hand to identify Judge Crater. He failed to appear. Unlike Captain Ayers' book, the picture has a plot-about...
...Paddy is his real acushla. persuades her that she loves him also. To this assiduously elfin but capably assembled production, Walter Connolly contributes a few genuine moments-like the one in which, with shamefaced grins at his daughters, Major Adair borrows ?3 from Larry to pay for a box of cigars...
...This Day & Age (Paramount), Cecil Blount DeMille addresses himself to two obsolescent problems: 1) the gangster, 2) the younger generation. A director who combines the talents of a burlesque impresario and a soap-box revivalist, he makes the result a noisy and preposterous melange, calculated to arouse squeals of excitement or of ennui, according to the audience's mental...
...Archie Compston, to arrange a match. Mrs. Alastair Mackintosh made it a foursome and they played three rounds on as many courses, Miss Gottlieb and Wales playing for a ball a hole. After halving two matches, she finally won with an 80 to his 83. He gave her a box of balls, autographed her card. She gave him an iron club. During the match Wales smiled when, after a flub, Beatrice Gottlieb cried, "Oh nerts...