Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Indubitably the best-known news photographer in New York City is Izzy Kaplan, at present employed by the Daily Mirror. Photographer Kaplan has snapped practically every celebrity to enter Manhattan in the past ten years, has hidden in choir stalls to "get" socialite weddings, fed a hot dog to the late great Albert of Belgium, insulted Cardinals and bossed prize fighters. He seldom shaves and has difficulty in keeping his shirt tails inside his trousers...
...Illinois, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Ohio, New Jersey, Michigan, Texas, Missouri, with more than $10,000,000 each. Of 9,499 cinema houses in the U. S., 820 are in New York, 722 in Pennsylvania. Only State in which cinema was not the most popular amusement was Florida, where 14 horse & dog race tracks took in $2,406,000 to cinema...
...explained by having him a transplanted U.S. under-worldling. The plot concerns his love for Toni (Jean Parker) whom he protects when a constable wants to arrest her for stealing a watch; a love that persists in spite of her almost immediate attachment to the young proprietor of a dog store whom she meets while taking a walk. The threat to these somewhat incredible proceedings is supplied by Miss Wong, Raft's Chinese sweetheart. If it is not much of a threat the fault is less hers than a role which gives her half a dozen lines...
...with her Aunt Gertrude. It was not that she disliked her mother. But it had been no fun knocking around Europe with only an old nurse to play with. Her good times began at Old Westbury. She liked playing with her eight small cousins.* She liked her pony and dog. She liked going to Greenvale School every morning and told the Justice all about what she was studying. He concluded that she was a bright child...
What has been the result? In the majority of cases the campaigns have degenerated into personal dog-fights. But even the kick-'im-in-the-shins "You're a liar--you're another!" blustering that have resounded in New York are harmless compared to the insidious below-the belt fighting elsewhere. The mass of voters either laugh at an open fight, or they vote against a "knocker"; but they have never read "Brutus is an honorable man" and they do not recognize subtle defamation. The winning of campaigns by such means--and examples abound--is a knock-down blow...