Word: brawne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great California fortune came to San Francisco's late Senator James Duval Phelan when he was 21. When he died in 1930, aged 69, he left $20,000 to Tennist Helen Wills Moody, $20,000 to Author Gertrude Atherton, scores of other bequests to natives whose brain or brawn had reflected credit on his beloved state.* Last week another of the Senator's benefactions posthumously bore fruit when the San Francisco Art Association awarded the first $2,000 Phelan Traveling Scholarship to Helen Elizabeth Phillips, a young sculptor who in all her 23 years has never been outside...
...Government surplus" of Palestine was created not by the Arabs, under whom Palestine became what you rightly call "a dead land." It was created by Jewish brains and Jewish brawn and Jewish sacrifice...
...Riffraff," Jean Harlow and Spencer Tracy in the title role, is an expert melodrama of bombs, brains, brute stupidity, strike agitation, and escape from prison. The director makes use of every stock situation known to cinema, from the working girl sweetheart and the caveman boyfriend with neolithic brawn and paleolithic brains, to the sirens and flying bullets that scream after the escaped prisoner. But from beginning to end there is not one single cliche. In addition to this remarkable achievement, the picture tells a passionate love story without one word of love. Spencer Tracy, the tough...
Bette is enthralled by Leslie's dying splendor, because so far she has known only a primeval lump of brawn that plays football. And Leslie in turn looks wistfully upon her eager energy. But nothing would come of it all if it weren't for the entrance at this point of Duke Mantee (Humphrey Bogart), a savage killer who reminds the granddaddy in the picture of Billy the Kid and the other old-time desperadoes. The Duke imposes a reign on terror on the little roadhouse, and precipitates all sorts of emotional shifts, strains, and crises. Leslie decides that...
With the dazzling candor of exalted birth he has said, "I prefer brawn to brains." He honestly thinks brainy people queer, commands ten languages, likes dancing, tennis, shooting, prizefights, the circus, slapstick at the Palladium and ginger ale with his meals. Untroubled by minor inconsistencies, he is a Mason, Greek Orthodox and divorced-all in good standing. Until last week he has been rather careful with his fortune of $100,000. Then at one clip Kingmaker Kondylis sent him $200,000 in advance expense money for his triumphal return to Athens, and at once there was trouble. Seemingly the Greek...