Word: couldn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twentieth Century was not even a good grosser. Even Columbia's luck for taking slipping stars and rebuilding them couldn't affect Barrymore's box office ability. Barrymore may remain a starring figure, but as far as the box office is concerned, he has never proved the sensation most people think they believe...
...indignantly repudiated the idea that his plan was a racket. Said he: "I'd be ashamed of a racket that didn't pay any better than this. We get only a bare living. We all sacrifice something to serve. Being opposed to the profit system, we couldn't very well exist for the purpose of making a profit, could we? True, our revenue is considerable, but...the administration expense is heavy...
Experts were glowing a few weeks ago when Henry Ford announced that he was increasing his production quotas, and the sentiment at that time was that this news augured well for the automobile industry as a whole. But old Dame Rumor couldn't let Ford's promising statement alone. A little bird has been informing the followers of the market that both Ford and Packard are planning to enter new candidates in the $1000 class, to compete with General Motors and Chrysler. This bit of information adds to the general gayety of the situation and at the same time throws...
...Hollywood fame, rose magnificently to the occasion. Casting modesty, prudery, and other such doubtful virtues to the winds, she offered to bestow a resounding kiss in her best cinema manner upon anyone who should score for dear old Loomis. The boys rose to the occasion too. In fact they couldn't be kept down, and in a whirlwind afternoon routed the amazed Deerfield behemoths by some such score as 28 to 0. One lucky halfback tallied twice, and all the heroes were publicly rewarded before the cheering school the next...
Harvard's Jayvee football team couldn't break the jinx that Freshman elevens have for them and went down to defeat at the hands of the 1938 Holy Cross team, 12-8, on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon. The scrubs were tied by the Northeastern Freshmen in their first game...