Word: careers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Career: Homer Truett Bone is a round-shouldered, kindly little man with a gloomy viewpoint. In discussing the state of the world, he is apt to remark: "This is a dark and sombre picture." Politicians, whose squabbling Homer Bone heartily dislikes, do not understand why Bone, of all men, should be afflicted by melancholy. Indisputably his State's most popular politician, he amassed 243,682 votes in the Democratic primary this year to 196,876 for all his opponents. He spends no money in the primary, except for gas and oil, and has just returned a $500 check from...
Next week, when the ballots are counted on election evening, the political campaign of 1938 will be embalmed in history. This week it is on its way to the undertaker's. Shrewd politicians have already sized up its career, and are drawing lessons from it for the future...
...Pack" further declared that a college education was a waste of time. "A stage career is so much more educational than a Harvard career," she chirped knowingly...
...Service de Luxe, Constance Bennett reacts to an emotional crisis principally by changing her clothes with a rapidity which sets a record for her sartorially notable screen career...
...crisis is occasioned by a handsome young inventor (Vincent Price, onetime stage lead to Helen Hayes in Victoria Regina) who bitterly resents her professional efforts to manage his career. Chic, wholesome and moderately funny, Service de Luxe benefits by characteristic performances from Charles Ruggles, Helen Broderick and Mischa Auer, an unusually bright script. Best line: Broderick's description of the meeting between Price and Bennett: "When freak meets freak...