Word: catchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Edward Everett Horton and Eric Blore turn in their usual fine performances and play no small part in making this picture laugh provoking. Gershwin music is hard to catch, but two numbers, "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off," and "You Can't Take That Away From Me," immediately set the audience humming...
...into her own hands. But now that all fruit served must be cut and eaten on the premises, the waitresses have the added responsibility of seeing that no one slyly puts a grapefruit or two into his pocket, and then dashes out before the buxom valkyries of Unionhalla can catch him. This is an onerous and difficult task from which no one reaps any benefit...
...depression and prime the pump of recovery by spending more than it collects in taxes; when times are good it should put a brake on inflation by collecting more than it spends. Now inflation is under way and the President, though talking economy, is still waiting for revenue to catch up to spending. On the evidence that expected 1938 revenues of $6,906,000,000 (an alltime high, 60% above pre-Depression normal) were yet expected to leave the Government with its eighth successive annual deficit, it appeared that Franklin Roosevelt had abandoned the Keynes theory by forgetting its second...
...group of blustering captains of rusty little British freighters. While the British Cabinet worried over Generalissimo Franco's blockade, the captains, three of whom were named Jones, and their cargoes of spoiling food remained marooned in the French harbor of Saint-Jean-de-Luz. First to catch the public eye was Captain David ("Potato") Jones, part-owner of the Marie Llewellyn and nicknamed for his cargo. Roaring, "Has our Navy lost its guts?" Potato Jones put out to sea to run the blockade unprotected, to find himself hailed as a hero by British sentimentalists (TIME, April 26). Changing...
Batting honors for Winthrop went to Downs, dependable third baseman, who registered four hits and scored thrice. Dark horse ace of the Puritan squad was Verner E. Kelly '37, who made a spectacular catch of a center field fly, and smacked out a triple on his last trip to the plate...