Word: dominos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Domino. Producer William Augustin Brady got his season-opener from his wife Grace George, who adapted it from the French of Marcel Achard. A faithful wife (Jessie Royce Landis), disturbed by her husband's jealousy of her onetime lover (Geoffrey Kerr), hires a ne'er-do-well called Domino (Rod La Rocque) to pretend that it is he who has been her lover. The love of Lorette and the foppish Cremone had been a routine, spiritless affair. Domino makes of it a romantic adventure, much to the discomfort of both ex-lovers, much to the bewilderment of the husband, Heller...
Somewhere between Paris and New York Domino lost its charm, possibly in the translation which turns "Sans blague!" to "Oh, yeah?" Domino's few funny moments were due to Geoffrey Kerr, who stuttered, smoked cigarets in a foot-long holder, made both pathetic and amusing his portrayal of fumbling ineffectuality...
While the Spreckels interests are many, sugar has been the core. Great is American Sugar Refining Co. whose table sugars (Domino and Franklin) are 25% of the total U. S. cane output. Also great was Spreckels Sugar Corp. whose tablets (Caneheart) were 6%. Depression has hit both companies. Last fortnight American Sugar, whose chairman Earl D. Babst has no faith in stabilization projects, bowed to the gale and cut its dividend from $5 to $4. And last week the same gale toppled Spreckels Sugar into a receivership...
...things had come to such a pass that long hitters like Bobby Jones and Horton Smith never had a chance to play a brassie shot. The bigger lighter ball adopted by the U. S. G. A. (1.68 in. diameter, 1.55 oz.) is about the same as the Spalding "black domino" of a decade ago. It was designed to take yardage away from long hitters and put a premium on accuracy in the wind. To mediocre players and duffers-who constitute the vast golfing public and really support the game- it was promised that the new ball would "sit up" better...