Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minimum of head-ducking. Funnyman Rogers is a less hackneyed philosopher than he was in earlier films. Time is the slow Kentucky '90s. Plot is concerned with a judge who is fond of his nephew who is fond of the pretty but poor white trash next door. Not until the courtroom scene discloses that a reticent, no-account town character named Gillis, once convicted of murder, is not only the young girl's father but also a great Confederate hero of the Civil War, do things come out the way they should. Mounted against crinolines and candy-pulling...
Under Secretary of Agriculture Rexford Guy Tugwell and Assistant to the Secretary Paul Henson Appleby sailed from Manhattan to attend the meetings of the International Agricultural Institute in Rome. Secretary Tugwell locked his cabin door, leaving Secretary Appleby outside to explain: "He is not snooty but there was a lot of last minute work he had to do. . . . Neither the President nor Secretary Wallace had any hand in pushing this trip to Europe. . . . Neither of us has resigned nor is going to be 'kicked out,' at least for anything we have done so far. . . . This trip...
...Tappan, N. Y., when John Ellich, 71, and Marie Kiefer, 61, passed forlornly through the door of the German Masonic Home, each felt that the rest of life held but little. But to John Ellich and Marie Kiefer came love, not death. All during one year they stole off together, held hands, whispered their emotions. But at the old folks home was a strict regulation against inmates marrying. One day, on leave, John Ellich and Marie Kiefer eloped to Manhattan. For two years after that officials of the home watched the strangely happy couple with growing suspicion, at length called...
...luck. I think my life is charmed in that respect. But I had a friend on the Carinthia, the ship in which I made the North Cape cruise, and he held the diamond in his pocket for two hours and now I understand he's lying at death's door...
...year before the Century's turn a Chicago tea salesman named Frank Vernon Skiff who had saved $700 started a wagon route on his own, peddling dry groceries from door to door. He peddled for two years before he hit on a way of making his business different from any of the other hundreds of mobile stores weaving in & about Chicago. It was merely the hoary premium plan?with a twist. His brother-in-law thought it was a pretty good idea and they set up "Jewel Tea Co., Skiff & Ross, Proprietors." The idea: give housewives the premium first...