Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...depreciation of Canadian currency; after a U. S. publisher has scrambled over the tariff wall he finds himself accepting subscriptions in Canadian dollars worth U. S. 90?. Most important of all is Reason No. 3. Few U. S. publishers in recent years seriously went after the Canadian Cousin's subscription. The small plum of Canadian distribution found its way almost unsought into U. S. circulation puddings. Canadian circulation of a U. S. periodical holds little lure for big-advertising, international industries like General Motors, Campbell's, Pepsodent, Squibb, Swift, Westclox et al. which manufacture in Canada, must stress...
Goona-Goona (Independent) is the first cinema taken in the island of Bali in the Malay Archipelago. Producer André Roosevelt (distant cousin) and his son-in-law Armand Denis privately showed a first version three years ago in Manhattan. They have revised and cut it, added a new beginning. They still deserve credit as the discoverers of Bali, despite Charles Trego's lovelier Isle of Paradise (TIME, Sept. 12). Goona-Goona was shown at the French Colonial Exposition in Paris, rushed out of storage following the success of Isle of Paradise...
...because he had come after her with a knife. Police at the apartment had discovered no knife. On second investigation of the house a lawyer named Hoffman produced a three-inch paring knife which he said he had found there. Then Mrs. Pollak's platinum-blonde cousin, a Mrs. Victoria Schultz, "eyewitness," supplied a huge carving knife. Lawyer Hoffman left the State...
...grasped the meaning of the word "acquitted." Later she found her tongue, declared: "Judge Fisher is a nice man. He looked at it sensibly." Then she signed a contract to appear for three weeks at the State-Congress Theatre in burlesque at $1,000 a week. Cousin Victoria Schultz got only $250 a week...
...setting up weaving frames. His son Will marries the sister of one of the murderers. Will's legitimate son Brigg and his bastard son Jonathan quarrel over workers' rights. Brigg marries the daughter of a foreman. Their son, young Brigg, despises his mother a little, courts his cousin Jane, loses her to another foreman, marries into the county peerage. With Young Brigg, the Oldroyd blood begins to thin out. Francis, his son, marries Jane's daughter, finds Syke Mill drifting into ruin after the War. There is not much that he or his boy David can do. After the crash...