Word: dicks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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DEATH IS A STOWAWAY-Wesley Price -Godwin ($2). Pirate gold, a yardarm corpse, death and a New York "dick" aboard a treasure cruiser...
...James Orr Elton, Anaconda Copper Mining Co. metallurgist, the 1933 James Douglas Medal, for improvements in smelting lead, zinc & silver; to Author Richmond Pearson Hobson, the Congressional Medal of Honor, for heroism in the Spanish-American War; to the University of Chicago's George Frederick & Gladys Henry Dick, the University of Edinburgh 1933 Cameron Prize, for discovering the scarlet fever germ and serum...
...legs and can tap dance. Ruby Keeler's utter inability to act is far more appropriate to her rôle than any feigned incompetence could possibly be. It gives Forty-Second Street a charm which the efforts of the rest of the cast-George Brent, Guy Kibbee, Dick Powell and Warner Baxter (as a nerve-ridden musicomedy director)-fail to provide. Good shot: Ruby Keeler drawling her consent when the juvenile, in a state of pop-eyed enthusiasm, asks her to marry...
...German school a rare cut of Hans Holbein, the younger, entitled "The Dance of Death." The modern American school is represented chiefly by the work of Rockwell Kent, who gives a symbolical study of life in his "Over the Ultimate." The collection also includes his vivid illustrations to "Moby Dick...
...next time a house dick snatches anything out of your hands, curses you, or makes any insulting remarks to your girl friend, get a gang of your pals and show the hoodlum that it is safer to be hustling beer for Capone...