Word: dubious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...college players to oppose the Braves on December 10 has been definitely abandoned, following the refusal of E. L. Casey '19, Harvard coach, to undertake the task. Efforts are now being made to obtain a college team of suitable drawing power to oppose the Braves, but Leary was extremely dubious as to the success of negotiations. President Lowell has unconditionally offered the use of the Stadium...
Judy Carrol takes up travel, makes friends with Playwright Jake Pell (Joel McCrea) who is estranged from his wife. A jolly suitor, he writes a play for her, escorts her into dubious cafes, fills her bedroom with balloons. It looks as though Judy Carrol were going to get her baby at last until, on the opening of the play, there comes a bulletin from his first wife. She has provided Playwright Pell not with a divorce but with an infant. Brave through it all, Judy Carrol sends her fiancé back to his first wife and prepares...
...Saunders, an Englishman who for some English reason is a pariah to his kind and has become an opium-smoking, suspiciously bachelor dweller among Chinese. An able eye specialist, he has a large practice. On a lucrative visit to a far-away trader, he runs into two dubious Australians, gets a lift on their lugger to another island. Captain Nichols, skipper of the boat, is a shifty but unashamed scoundrel. Blake is a nice-looking youngster with a secret on his mind. When a gale blows them to Kanda, a beautiful and peaceful island, none of them...
...down to 5¢, wool from 20¢ per Ib. down to 7¢" at a public cost of $500,000,000. But Senator Barkley's only concrete suggestions were to lend the farmers more money like "other forms of industry and finance" and to "take the Government out of the dubious adventure of speculation in farm products...
Plans. Cheered only by the dubious satisfaction of being able to look backward on the worst year in their history, cinema producers had last week finished announcing their production schedules for 1932-33-Added to their other burdens next year will be a Federal amusement tax of 10% on admissions over 40¢. This will affect only 400 of 12,500 U. S. cinema theatres. Squirming together in the same kettle of fish, cinema producers have lately realized that, to keep their own theatres open, they need the assistance of rival producers. Next year they will cooperate more than heretofore...