Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...identity. The result of their first meeting was an illegitimate child. Miss Sullavan becomes this sea son's most long suffering heroine by dying of heart disease just before the picture ends, after sending a long letter to her lieutenant, now a stockbroker ruined by the Crash. More sadly than reproachfully, she reminds him of her existence and tells him that he has a son. The picture, told in a long flashback, starts when Lieutenant Emerson, sitting down at his desk with the intention of shooting himself, sees the letter. When he is through reading, he has forgotten about...
With the score 7-to-7 and four minutes to play, Bill Corbus, Stanford's All-American guard, booted a place kick from the 23-yd. line over Southern California's goal posts. Thus fell, with a resounding crash, the fattest Humpty Dumpty of 1933 football and the first big one to fall. To make sure the pieces would not be put together again that day, Corbus kicked again, scored again...
...World Changes (Warner). In the list of Hollywood indispensables, the date of Oct. 24, 1929 ranks high. The stockmarket crash is to unhappy endings what the NRA has recently become to conclusions of regeneration, and it has never had more disastrous consequences than it does upon the Nordholm family in this picture. Granddaughter Nordholm is left waiting at the church. Her brother, bothered about stealing money to play the market, takes ship for South America. His father commits suicide because he learns that his wife is misbehaving. Mean Mrs. Nordholm calls up her lover but he is too distressed...
...bygone weeks, herewith sequels from last week's news: C. To the attempted extradition from Greece of Samuel Insull, Chicago's run- away utilitarian, on U. S. charges of criminal bankruptcy for withdrawing $2.500,000 from his tottering company when he knew they were about to crash (TIME, Sept. 4): refusal by the Greek Appellate Court, which then released Fugitive Insull from custody...
...money to buy stock at the top (and found difficulty in repaying it), listened in surprise at the tale of their onetime chief's profits. They listened grimly while he told how one of his family companies had been short 60,000 shares of bank stock at the Crash in October...