Word: comber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when a youthful bar-comber, handsome, down-&-out U. S. engineer Bill Gregory (Robert Cummings), insults Singer Irene, she falls in love with him. Her love saves Bill from his gin-&-bitter end, sets him to piping pure water from the hills (for the peons). By the time Dirk, rather tactlessly, brings Paul to Rio after his escape from jail, Bill and Irene, happy in the thought that jungle ants and vultures have done for Paul, are all set to marry. The Freudian knot is cut by Dirk, who grapples with Paul when he tries to shoot Irene, inadvertently makes...
Practically every field of honest and, possibly, questionable, endeavor is included among the remaining vocations. Manufacturing, education, insurance and merchandising draw over five from the class. The usual amount of dry wit is present in one man's statement that he wants to be a beach-comber, and author's that he intends to become a "raconteur"-Dwight Fiske...
...were a socialist, a beach-comber, or some other sort of undesirable, and fell in love with a wealthy and beautiful young lady, her family would resent it--and she would pretend to. But if you were the only man she had over known, she would end up by marrying you, and paternal benediction would be tardy but inevitable...
...that Without End, the following year, failed. Son of actor whose name was known 48 years ago, attended Princeton in 1906 7. Wanderlust caused him to leave college. He a good deal of Central and South America, spent two years at sea, is supposed to have been a beach-comber for a time before he returned to America...
...with professional crews, many a misgiving in a rising wind. Vesta and Henrietta had their cockpits boarded over but not Fleetwing. On the eighth day, wallowing through a heavy gale at night, Fleetwing shipped a sea which carried eight men overboard. Two were swept back by the next comber, but the rest were lost. Despite this tragedy, Fleetwing finished second, 40 minutes ahead of Vesta and only eight hours behind Henrietta, winner in 13 days...