Word: furs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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BITTER GLORY-Leon Thornber-Fur-man ($2.50). Heavily romanticized version of the free-love life of fragile Chopin and trousered, vigorous George Sand...
...dress shabbily, do not use firearms and are abjectly terrified every time a tall, fatherly police sergeant appears to question or scold them. Even their slang-in which a policeman is a "rozzer," a pal is addressed as "china"- is more quaint than sinister. Thus the great million-dollar fur robbery which climaxes Dr. Clitterhouse's efficient operations is likely to remind U. S. spectators of a schoolboy raid on the jam closet. Somehow that does not impair the show's excitement...
...dresses, designers are concentrating attention on the skirts. Some are slashed, some elaborately embroidered, some appliquéd with flowers, paillettes, fur...
...dresses, who is financially pressed to the verge of frenzy in marrying off his preening elder daughter Clarisse to a well-heeled lawyer. When Clarisse (Jeanne Greene) has impoverished the attorney, she comes home to roost, appropriates her sister Delia's college tuition money for remodeling a fur coat, tries to get Delia's boy friend David too. David conveniently writes a novel, gets $25,000 for the movie rights, spurns Clarisse, marries Delia. Papa Kadan is further gratified when his stupid son Bert, an amateur boxer, marries the daughter of his wealthy business rival. Less amusing than...
Most success for the A. A. A. has come within business and professional groups which have established arbitration principles in contracts. Examples: the fur industry, actors and architects. Stock exchange firms have popularized an arbitration clause in customers' agreements, paving the way for settlement of such controversies as the one in 1935 involving $500,000 worth of Alleghany Corp. preferred stock (TIME...