Word: dan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thunder in the City (Columbia) is the meaningless title of a story about a U. S. ballyhoo artist who turns England topsyturvy promoting a new metal named magnalite. Gash-mouthed Edward G. Robinson plays the role in his customary Napoleonic manner. As genial Dan Armstrong, he lands penniless in London, bluffs his way into an option on the magnalite mines, installs a duke as board chairman, sends fleets of blimps over London carrying magnalite signs, soon sells all his stock to enthusiastic herds of subway riders. At this point another capitalist gets his hands on the only process that makes...
Married. Margaret Arline Judge Ruggles, 24, brunette cinemactress; and Daniel Reid ("Dan") Topping, part owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers football team and grandson of the late Tin Plate Truster Daniel Gray ("Tsar") Reid; in Reno, Nev., immediately after she divorced Film Director Wesley Ruggles...
...Maundy Thursday at Westminster Abbey, now boarded up in preparation for the Coronation, was discharged last week by the Archbishop of Canterbury at St. Paul's Cathedral, for His Majesty is being spared "fatiguing public appearances." Chicago Tribune's David Darrah and United Press's Dan Rogers broke stories that the Archbishop of Canterbury is slashing the Coronation Service right & left in efforts to get it as short and unfatiguing as possible, has decided to omit the sermon, hopes to telescope the ritual from a service normally of about four hours' duration into one, starting...
...Drake last fortnight, "Bus" Bergmann was enraged to find printed in the daily Times-Delphic one of Heloise's earlier publicity portraits. It showed most of her and was slyly captioned "Today's Hot Tip." The editor of the offending issue was a 160-lb. student named Dan Anderson of Salt Lake City. Before he knew it he was hauled out of his office by "Bus" Bergmann and told to take his hands out of his pockets. He declined and woke up in a University washroom. Editor Anderson had loyal "Bus" Bergmann arrested for assault and battery...
...believe it is loose-flying. In fact the Cantabs seem suddenly to have disappeared with all their lucre; vanished in the manner of Handsome Dan. The latest and best odds we could muster were three to two, which is after all a fifty percent price rise. Perhaps the men from Lowell and Dunster Houses are getting an attack of the jitters, or maybe their previous offer was just one of those Carnival necromances...