Word: corded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...each & every raise,, whether it affected ten or 10,000, the Press thumped and boomed on its big bass drum.† Errett Lobban Cord, whose companies have never been noted for high wages, upped all workers in his automobile and aviation units 5%. Up 12½% went all Goodyear Tire & Rubber employes. Up 10% went wages in George E. Rogers & Co., Pittsburgh wholesale hay & grain dealers. The upping movement undoubtedly spread far & wide last week, but three things the Press did not report were: 1) What percentage of all U. S. workers received raises. 2) what the wages were before...
...Silver Cord (RKO). If there is one thing which U. S. cinemaddicts have been taught to consider wholesome, if not sacred, it is Mother Love. The producers of this picture therefore deserve credit for their courage. The Silver Cord is a searching and bitter character study of a woman whose exaggerated affection for her children has made weaklings of them and a monster of herself. Mrs. Phelps (Laura Hope Crews) badgers one of her sons (Eric Linden) into breaking his engagement on the ground that his fianceé (Frances Dee) does not love him enough. The girl tries to commit...
...young couple arrange to have Ronald witness his wife being abducted. This leads him to leap out of the wheel chair to which his mother has reduced him, establish his independence by a rescue. Laura Hope Crews who played a serious version of the same role in The Silver Cord does as well as anyone possibly could with Mrs. Colgate. The picture is a minor injustice to her as well as to Zasu Pitts, whose woeful eyes, Lady Macbeth hands and forlorn nervous meanings have made her celebrated as Hollywood's only sad comedienne...
...November 1932 he rushed in as master of Errett Lobban Cord's proxy fight to gain control of Aviation Corp...
...good friend Mayor Frank Murphy. Streets were roped off, the house surrounded by guards. In the basement, police found remains of a crude, small black-powder bomb. The explosion had wrecked a steam-pipe, broken windows, spattered canned goods about. Otherwise, no damage. Only clue was a long white cord by which the bomb had perhaps been lowered into the cellar...