Word: dieses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Botanists realized again last week that "century plant" is a complete misnomer for the American aloe (Agave americana). In Mexico where it is called the maguey it takes only 15 years or so to store up the energy to bloom. Unblooming, it looks like an ordinary ground-palm: a rosette...
One Man's Journey (RKO). Dr. Eli Watt (Lionel Barrymore) has a hard time in life. His wife dies in bearing him a son. He goes back to the small town where he was raised, vaguely ambitious to get away to the city and make a name for himself...
They are Ted and Lulu Hackett, happy hoofers whose act improves when small Ted Jr. (Jackie Cooperj is old enough to swing a cane. The Hacketts make the mistake of never changing their routine. Young Ted marries a danseuse (Madge Evans), takes to tippling and "chasing." She dies in an...
With the transitional remark, "Why, it seems only yesterday . . ." tycoon and satellite become James Whitcomb Riley boys in a swimming hole. Then, "in no time at all he was president of the road," bullying the directors of Chicago & South Western Railway into buying a little road for spite. Then a...
Mary Stevens, M.D. (Warner Brothers). "They say that being a doctor is a man's job. I'm wondering what a man would have done in a case like this." When Dr. Mary Stevens (Kay Francis) makes this comment, she has just used one of her hairpins to...