Word: cooperative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stablemates (Metro-GoIdwyn-Mayer) gives Wallace Beery a chance to duplicate, with a few trivial alterations, his famed role in The Champ (1931). In The Champ, Beery was a broken-down plug-ugly who achieved moral and physical regeneration through his desire to justify the adoration of little Jackie Cooper. In Stablemates, he is a dilapidated veterinary surgeon, restored to some degree of selfrespect by the grateful affection of Mickey Rooney and a race horse named Lady...
...related to the hurricane which struck farther up the northern Atlantic Coast last fortnight. Blowing up from some 25 miles in the interior, the first twister knocked down a row of Negroes' houses near the Ashley River. Within seven minutes, another twister licked down Meeting Street, along the Cooper River, wrecked more ancient hovels of the poor, flattened many a garden of the native gentry and rich Yankee interlopers. Sadly battered but not ruined were palmettos, oaks in famed White Point Gardens, known to millions of tourists. A third blow skirted Charleston proper, whisked off a dozen cottages...
...despair of those British forces which would have liked to ashcan Stanley Baldwin, would now like to ashcan Neville Chamberlain. It was no worker but an especially gilded British aristocrat, the husband of Mayfair's glamorous Lady Diana ("The Virgin in Max Reinhardt's The Miracle") Duff Cooper, who was first in London to take up potent cudgels against the Prime Minister (see p. 19) by resigning from the Cabinet...
Aristocratic Mr. Eden's aristocratic friend, Alfred Duff Cooper, who last week resigned as First Lord of the British Admiralty in "protest" at the Munich settlement, although he personally saw Neville Chamberlain off with good wishes (see p. 16), spoke up sharply. Chamberlain dealt with Hitler "in the language of sweet reasonableness," Duff Cooper told the House, in a speech interrupted by his sobbing, "whereas the mailed fist is the only language Hitler understands!" Germany would have backed down, said Mr. Duff Cooper, if Britain had sooner mobilized her fleet, which was under his command as First Lord...
Second Crew--Stroke, Cooper-Ellia; 7, Redmond; 6, Davies; 5, Powell; 4, Spence; 3, Brown; 2, Farley; bow, Winship; cox, Redmon...