Word: courtships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Powell's former sensation "The Thin Man." Ginger Rogers is cast in an entirely new sort of role which she portrays adequately, that of the rich young society girl who falls in love with a clever attorney named Clay Dalzell (William Powell), turning amateur detective during their courtship and often unwittingly stumbling upon highly important clues to a baffling mystery...
...life. First was one Frederick A. Gower who took a balloon flight over the English Channel and never returned. Second was Zoltan Dome, an Hungarian tenor as lazy as he was handsome. Third was George Washington Young, millionaire president of U. S. Mortgage & Trust Co., so lavish in his courtship that once when Nordica was singing on the Pacific Coast and he was in Manhattan he hired a messenger boy to take her an emerald necklace clear across the continent...
...Realm Minister of Aviation, Chief of the German Secret Service, Premier of Prussia, Commander of Police, Head Forester and Chief Game Warden and Master of the Hunt in Prussia, Director General of the State Theatres; to blonde, buxom Emmi Sonnemann, 35, whom he appointed "Prussian State Actress" during his courtship. Said he: "My best man will be Adolf Hitler." The shrine erected by General Göring to his late first wife, a Swedish Baroness, is a point of pilgrimage for the Nazi League of German Girls. During the War Goring was an authentic national hero, succeeded the late, great...
Greta's honeymoon was as queer as her courtship was sudden. Her Irish bridegroom, Sandy, had a way with women and a gift of gab, but the police were after him. On the little Polish steamer in which Sandy and Greta made their getaway from Ireland was a mysterious party of five Englishmen. Leader was Andrew, brilliant bachelor Oxford don, who hid his heroic light under a staid bushel. Andrew was the type of true adventurer, as Sandy was of the shoddy. The expedition's real purpose was not, as given out, to search for butterflies along...
...colonists in their practical manner had an excellent device for speeding along courtship and saving firework at the same time. The damsel and box suitor, when the winter winds blew off simply popped into bed, fully clothed lowered a small wooden fence between them and pulled the covers high ground their necks. This was called "bunding" and it is this quaint practice that provides the central theme for "The Pursuit of Happiness," playing at the Metropolitan theatre this week...