Word: candlestick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...realization of two roles as great as any they ever played. Outstanding scenes: McLaglen getting washed for breakfast, drilling a squad, teaching boxing, playing dolls, dying in the infirmary; the attack on the arsenal; the Afghans laughing at Shirley; Old Boots going to Khoda Khan. The Emperor's Candlesticks (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is as blythe a pre-War romance as the Baroness Orczy, from whose book it was adapted, could wish. Rival spies, the Polish Baron Stephan Wolensky (William Powell) and the Russian Countess Olga Mironova (Luise Rainer), are entrusted with a pair of Louis XV candlesticks...
...butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker joined whole heartedly with the barber, the secondhand man, the House waitresses and biddies in the latest CRIMSON presidential poll. Roosevelt led Landon by 321 to 268 and was ahead throughout, but it was not until the last vote was counted that third place was decided. The result was that Colonel Charles R. Apted '09 ran hand in hand with Communist Browder and Union Lemke, each garnering 13 votes...
...apparently spent the night with Dr. Thorpe. One of these, a blonde onetime showgirl named Norma Taylor*, was also recalled by a Los Angeles policeman. Dr. Thorpe had summoned him in after Miss Taylor, intoxicated, had invaded his dining room when he was eating with his daughter, brandished a candlestick, chased him upstairs, cornered him in a bathroom, plunged a fork into his thigh...
Those who have not yet decided whether they want to be butchers, bakers, or candlestick makers will be aided in their decision of a vocation by taking the jobcounseling course of the Boston Y.M.C.A. starting April...
...pays his bills the most promptly- butcher, baker or candlestick maker? From credit men the length & breadth of the land Professor Paul D. Converse of the University of Illinois sought the answer. When his data were assembled, the National Association of Finance Companies arranged the answers by occupational groups on a percentage basis. Last week Cleveland Trust Co. charted the results. No class was rated 100%. At the top were office clerks with 92%. Various types of storekeepers ranked below clerks and just ahead of schoolteachers (85%) and railroad trainmen. Dentists (82%) and doctors (80%) were not far ahead...