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...Kavanaugh who owns a large St. Louis coal company, all go and take their friends to Sportsman's Park every afternoon they can. Edward Magnus, a vice president of Diesel Engine Co., watches every game and takes his family twice a week. Paul Bowling, an official in Star Bucket & Pump Co., keeps a five-seat box for the members of his family and has not missed a game for five years. They, even more than Gabby Street, a man of 49, with a homely, angular face, who sits quietly in the dugout, not waving his score card like Connie...
...credit, the hoarding of $1,500,000,000 is only a drop in the bucket. The banks have no God-given right to deposits. More than 2.300 of them failed in the country last year, tying up $2,000,000,000. If people want to hoard, however foolish the desire, it's their business. After all. the thing is to keep the people from going broke...
...drop in the bucket compared with his returns upon the musicomedies Lady, Be Good, Oh Kay, Funny Face, Girl Crazy, Rosalie, Strike Up the Band and the current Of Thee I Sing (TIME...
Capt. Fred Nutter, 86, seemed less angry than reproachful. He admitted he had whacked his brother with a wrench. But first, said he, Capt. Edgar Nutter had attacked him with a slop-bucket. "Self-defense. . . . He's younger than me," said Capt. Fred Nutter. He added that his brother had been "spoiled," that "it's a damn lie, everything he said...
Over the Hill (Fox) is old-fashioned cinema, dealing sadly with filial ingratitude and the poorhouse. Its story is simple, straight from the old hokum bucket: Ma Shelby (Mae Marsh) rears her children in a sacrificial way, tenderly requiring them to wash behind the ears and eat their porridge. When they mature, it is found that her ministrations have spoiled them, or else that they have inherited unhappy characteristics from their father, a bootlegger but a bad provider. One of the sons becomes a pompous hack-painter, married to a sleek and dressy strumpet. Another is an enfeebled hypocrite, whining...