Word: dan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whetted by his first stroke of high finance, Fisk brashed into Wall Street, but with indifferent success until Uncle Dan'l Drew, dour and dignified and sanctimonious, took the mustachioed youngster under his batlike wing. Drew was the man who drove thirsty live stock into Manhattan, and having watered it just before weighing it, greatly increased the pounds for sale, thus originating the financial term of "watering stock...
...Governor of Texas, as everyone knows, is red-headed Dan Moody, 35. By right of the usual sweeping Democratic majority, he will continue to be Governor for at least two years. And long before he is three-score and ten, he is expected to ask his party to let him do what, in 1928, Smith...
...white Texas primary held last week returned Governor Dan Moody for re-election by some 100,000 votes. T. B. Love, loudspoken anti-Smithist, candidate for Lieutenant-Governor, ran some 80,000 votes behind Barry Miller, pro-Smith. Senator Earle B. Mayfield was close-pressed in defending his seat from ambitious Representative Tom Connally...
...John Coolidge went to Superior one cay, played golf, went shopping, returned to the lodge with the following phonograph records: "Just Like a Melody Out of the Sky," "Louisiana," "Dixie Dan," "Golden Gate," "I Can't Do Without You," "Think of Me Thinking of You," "Beloved, I Wonder...
...Killing. Powder-Horn Pete (Wallace Beery) and Dead-Eye Dan (Raymond Hatton) of the Ozark Mountains are hired by the Hicks family to kill all the Beagles. Thinking that the Beagles are four-legged animals, Pete and Dan slap thighs in joyful anticipation of easy slaughter. But the Beagles are a family of two-legged humans. The problem is finally solved without bloodshed when one little Beagle girl (Mary Brian) marries a Hicks boy. Here & there, a laugh ensues. . . . Paramount advertises the film as the last of the Beery-Hatton comedies...