Word: buns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Notable for being the first play to take advantage of New York State's new law permitting legitimate performances on Sunday, A Touch of Brimstone seems somehow irrelevant and dated, a clever theatrical pastiche which may very well be transformed into an acceptable cineman bun...
...destined for the Varsity, and next year when he becomes eligible, should follow in the footsteps of his famous fellow-countryman, Bun Wood, who did so much to popularize swimming at Harvard. That is, Coach Hal Ulen, with the aid of Wood, was able to put over a sport that had been neglected by the fathers of the University for so many years. Wood, like Arioli, was better in the distances than in the sprints, he having held the championship of the Hawaiian Islands in the mile and half-mile before he came to Harvard. Peter never swam in races...
...Bright Eyes), Baby Jane (Imitation of Life), David Holt (You Belong to Me), Virginia Weidler (Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch), Freddie Bartholomew (David Copperfield) have earned high-bracket incomes which will cease before they reach their adolescence. Carnival introduces the first baby-carriage Booth of 1935, a solemn, bun-faced 3-year-old named Dickie Walters. Since he is still comparatively inarticulate, Dickie Walters in Carnival is required to do little more than swallow cereal and retain his composure when Lee Tracy, blowing in his face, addresses him as "Poochy." He discharges these duties capably, seems less eager...
...Bun, the youngest and always the most grown-up of the lot, is his parents' standby. When he brings a queer, sullen Russian girl home, announces that she is his wife, the folks never get over it. But Bun knows what he is doing, even though his marriage may lead him into strange and dangerous ways. With his defection the folks realize they are now the old folks. Fred retires from the bank, and he and Annie drive out to California for a long visit. What they see there confuses and repels them; they are glad to get home...
...evening in November 1926, a brand new hockey team skated out on the ice of Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. First was stocky, mournful-looking Bun Cook, who superstitiously insists on touching the ice before his teammates. Behind him glided his pugnacious Brother Bill, team captain, with whom he owns a big wheat farm in Saskatchewan, big, bald, grinning Ivan Wilfred ("Ching") Johnson, slender Frank Boucher, and a youngster named Murray Murdoch. With a few other teammates they made up the New York Rangers. They played that night against the Montreal Maroons...