Word: digger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week when Mr. Rockefeller Jr. was gazing at the Rock of Gibraltar, en route to Egypt on an expedition with famed Digger James Henry Breasted of the University of Chicago, the Rockefeller office in Manhattan made public a letter which he had written to the stockholders of Standard Oil of Indiana...
...this, the young husband shows his virtuosity as a shrew-tamer. He takes her to a hunting lodge, turns soft living into hard, makes her tote wood, build fires, wash dishes, pose for him, behave herself. At last he drives figures out of the brain of the amateur gold digger. John Mack Brown is the successful husband of this successful picture...
...culled orchids from their treeholds, pounced on small beasts. Rare among their catches was a variety of the Thomas rat, second of its kind ever caught. (The first is in the British Museum.) They also trapped five strange mice with sharp noses, beady eyes and long claws, more a digger than a gnawer type of creature. Altogether in their bales, sacks, boxes and cages the explorers brought back to the American Museum of Natural History, and last week were sorting, 1,260 birds, 350 mammals, innumerable plants...
...Wild Oat. She runs a lunch counter. He is rich and romantic. He goes to Plymouth Beach. She follows him, wearing a wig and acting like a gold-digger's idea of a grande dame. He meets but does not recognize her. She says she is the Duchesse de Granville. The real Duchesse de Granville is his stepmother whom he has never seen. She, accordingly, is in a fix. She runs rapidly away, chased by police, house detectives, him. She returns to her lunchwagon. He ties the lunchwagon to his limousine and drags it to the door...
Ruth Taylor and Alice White make the most of a meagre scenario, however. Especially, as the brunette, Miss White, defends her particular style of beauty very well against the blond invasion. As a "gold-digger", Miss Taylor expounds the art to the edification of all. There is nothing very sinister about the trade as she practices...