Word: cooperativeness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before a gaping gathering last week in Manhattan's City Hall, a tall young man who looks like Gary Cooper and flies like Lindbergh, fumbled with some sheets of paper, nervous not because he had just circled the world in 3 days, 19 hr. 8 min. 10 sec., but because he had made but one previous speech in his life. "There is one thing about this flight that I would like everyone to know," he blurted at last. "It was in no way a stunt. It was the carrying out of a careful plan, and it functioned because...
...high-school science teacher (Claude Rains), she turns out to be a jewel with a heart of gold. Besides lavishly fulfilling her exacting duties, Hannah sells the contents of the family basement at fabulous prices, facilitates a budding romance between young Sally Ward (Bonita Granville) and Peter Trimble (Jackie Cooper), stimulates Paul Ward to invent not one but two different types of automatic icebox, and cures Mrs. Ward of the chronic droops. By all this audiences are prepared to believe in the denouement of the story and the omnipotence of the Golden Rule...
...Demagoguery." Surrounded by guards, a big, benign, mustached man slipped into the Great Hall of Cooper Union in Manhattan, modestly took his place on the platform before an audience of 1,000, smiled and applauded graduates' speeches. At length Trustee J. Pierpont Morgan rose, picked up a pile of diplomas, handed one to each of the 128 graduates, gave him a quick handshake, a smile and a bow. When President Gano Dunn asked him to speak, Banker Morgan bowed to the applause, smiled, shook his head...
...Goldwyn's famed Norwegian discovery from Brooklyn, is at times a bit annoying with her studied cuteness, while George Barbier plays his role as the great Khan in a manner more reminiscent of a genial Tammany district leader that the fierce and terrifying warrior of ancient China. Gary Cooper, as Marco Polo, collects coal, fireworks, and "spaghet" to introduce to Venice and he also teaches the lovely princess to kiss. She loves...
...investment banking and in 1923 went into the brokerage business for himself. Presently Shields & Co. was one of the largest wire houses in Wall Street with offices in 16 U. S. cities, four abroad. Paul Shields became something of a yachtsman and golfer, and his step-daughter married Gary Cooper, but reform in Wall Street remained his chief interest...