Word: corner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...machines since old New Orleans was first presented as the epitome of U. S. historical glamor. Nowadays it does not seem much better than a bore, and all the flounced dresses, veranda columns and old plantation dialogue in Hollywood-on which The Toy Wife appears to be trying to corner the market-cannot completely change it. Produced with MGM's customarily scrupulous attention to visual detail, the picture relates with considerable pictorial beauty the lachrymose story of Gilberte Brigard, nicknamed "Frou Frou." Pretty, light-headed little Frou Frou makes the mistake of marrying a serious young lawyer, George Sartoris...
...thinking why the girl-and-bird of you move. . . . moves. . . . and also, i'll admit-) till, at the corner of Nothing and Something, we heard a handorgan in twilight playing like hell...
Undaunted, 500,000 Britons jampacked Epsom Downs last week. As the field of 22 three-year-olds pounded down the curving hill into Tattenham Corner, Pasch was leading and looked as though he might be the sixth favorite to win the Derby since the War. But suddenly, smack in front of the grandstand, a mysterious horse shot out from behind, passed Pasch, passed Scottish Union, streaked up the hill to the wire, four lengths in front. It was Bois Roussel, a French-bred 20-to-i shot, owned by Hon. Peter Beatty, son of the late great Admiral Lord Beatty...
...title to the three ships. Already operating 47 cargo ships, the Commission planned to use the new ones as the nucleus of a "luxury" passenger and commercial line to the east coast of South America, to vie with the eager efforts of Nazi and Fascist shipping to corner trade in Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina. Awaiting bids this week on the task of refurbishing the vessels with deck swimming pools, gay Lido decks, more spacious cabins and airconditioning, the Commission was even considering the ingratiating idea of changing the names of the ships to those of the three east coast countries...
Slightly offsetting this gloom, some economists pointed to one sign that Recovery II might be just around the corner: Housing, white hope of 1938. at long last seemed to be bestirring itself. In May, home building east of the Rockies, as shown last week by the F. W. Dodge reports, topped both April and March levels. Though this could logically be laid to the weather, it was noteworthy that engineering contracts of $45,250,000 were 27% above the same week of 1937, shoving the 1938 total to date 7% ahead of last year...