Word: dubious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With Senate action dubious and a Presidential veto certain the most solemn warning uttered outside Washington on H. R. 13,991 was that of Pundit Walter Lippmann in the New York Herald Tribune: "This bill is a package of dynamite quite sufficiently charged to wreck the Democratic party and blow up the Roosevelt administration. The opportunities for corruption are infinite. The appearance of favoritism, injustice and scandal is certain. . . . The sponsors of this bill are very naïve indeed if they think that a billion dollars in taxes can be levied upon necessities . . . without provoking violent resentment...
...particularly bestial "panther woman" (Kathleen Burke). Miss Burke, a Chicago dentist's assistant whose pointed face, sloping eyes, fuzzy hair and graceful physique won her the part against 60,000 other girls who entered Paramount's contest for it last summer, pads about the island with the dubious manner natural for an inexperienced actress impersonating a heroine who has no soul. Laughton, as he managed to do in Devil and the Deep and The Sign of the Cross, gives the role of the villain a peculiarly horrifying quality by humanizing it far beyond the demands of the script...
...startling and unreliable figures before a depression struck people," said E. S. Mason, associate professor of Economics, in an interview yesterday. "It shows what a love of fads the people of the United States have, but you can't blame anyone for turning to any new panacea, however dubious, in a depression of this sort...
...because its heroine is impersonated by Clara Bow, who retired from the cinema in 1931 after winning a suit against her secretary, Daisy De Boe. When, after retiring to a Nevada ranch and marrying Actor Rex Bell, Cinemactress Bow announced last summer that she would resume acting, producers were dubious. They felt that Miss De Boe's revelations about Miss Bow's private affairs might have injured her popularity. Having decided to take a chance, Fox did more. It chose as a vehicle for Cinemactress Bow a story as crude as possible. Author Tiffany Thayer's Call...
...town. His daughter grows up to look a great deal like Ann Harding, marries a teller in the bank. The teller shoots himself on the day that 1) his son is born. 2) the bank closes its doors because he, the teller, has certified $400,000 worth of dubious checks. The son grows up to look exactly like Richard Dix. He goes to War, becomes an ace, causes his grandmother to die of joy when he returns. The picture ends in the panic of 1929, with old Richard Dix in shaggy makeup signing over $5,000,000 to young Richard...