Word: chain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...because audiences liked the variation. After a try at vaudeville singing he got into films, posed as a cameraman, worked as a gagman, then got a chance at directing. As a director he is best at purposeful melodrama (Little Caesar, Five Star Final, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang,They Won't Forget), which he usually endows with newsreel clarity, noteworthy ingenuity. In drawing-room comedy his approach is parvenu...
...17th-Century Spain, Austrian bells of chased silver, a Chinese porcelain bell of the Sung dynasty. One tiny gold bell in the form of a jaguar's head, found in Costa Rica, can be viewed only in the presence of Mr. Spear. He wears it on his watch chain...
...doesn't have to wet his finger more than once to see which way the wind blows. A. P.'s Bank of America has 492 branches in California. His First National Bank of Oregon has 42, First National of Nevada has twelve. There is a Giannini banking chain starting in Washington...
...local theatres, the Tremont, the Newsreel, the Repertory, and the (Medford) Square. A couple of weeks ago they went down to Hartford to open their twentieth theatre; they say it's the most beautiful theatre in New England, but they may be biased. It is the first of the chain to bear the Name. They think this is a wonderful idea, and every new house they open is going to be called the Proven Pictures Theatre...
With a varied career behind him which includes a Harvard Ph.D. Degree, chain manufacturing, the brokerage business, relief administration in New York State and then in Washington, Stone was persuaded by Harry Hopkins to take the position of relief administrator for Florida...