Word: bum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bum...
Five farmers on the jury wanted to punish the defendant for meddling. It took 14 ballots to win them over to acquittal. "Bum break," growled Farmer Schroeder...
...attention but an infinite skill with certain kinds of characterization are what should prevent the attention from wavering. A poorer picture than Sweepings would be justified by Ratoffs rebuke to a department store Santa Claus whom he catches removing his beard: "Vat are you-Senta Claus or a bum we picked up for two-fifty...
...That fellow over there, you mean. Oh, he blew in the other day from the Business School. Had a little temperature, and said he was all done in. Huh! Now look at him cramming for a four hour exam he can't attend. Lucky bum--he's got permission to dictate it to a nurse...
...Hallelujah, I'm a Bum" Al Jolson does some of his best work; to tell the truth, this is the only Jolson picture that the reviewer liked at all. Al, as mayor of Central Park, extols the virtues of the open air, while his friend, Frank Morgan, in the role of Mayor Hastings of New York, although converted to Bumper's care-free life of leisure, is tied down by official and private responsibilities. Complications on sue when June Marcher, Madge Evans in screen life, jumps off the bridge when Bastings unfortunately thinks that she is not faithful...