Word: gem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scientific cruise," get back as fast as it could. But the Champlain could not get back in time to answer the SOS of the liner Morro Castle, save Madam Minister Owen and her benefactor the embarrassment of explaining to Delaware's Republican Senator Hastings why "the gem of the Coast Guard fleet was taken from its regular station near the scene of the disaster and sent on a needless junket...
Although Diana Wynyard and Clive Brook are teamed together for the first time since "Cavalcade" in Radio Pictures' new gem, "Where Sinners Meet," it might have been as well if they had let this one go and taken the next vehicle that came along. A. A. Milne has been termed a great man, but even great men cannot count upon the vagaries of the cinema world, and the havoc which Hollywood has wreaked upon "The Dover Road," an enjoyable play, is so remarkable that even the genius that was once Diana Wynyard cannot pull...
...treatment of the movie differs from the play only in one important respect. Where on the stage it was a sparkling uncut gem, on the screen the edges have been nicely polished off, but the lustre has lost a little of its brilliance. This is most obvious in the difference between the interpretations of Alexander Kirkland and Clark Gable of the young interne, Dr. Ferguson. It was through the shoddy places in Kirkland's portrayal that the sincerity of his performance stood out. Gable brings to the movies a capable, even performance, but seems to lose a little of that...
...goodwill, loud robust William Wrigley Jr. thought nothing of distributing 29 carloads of Gem razors and 1,000,000 electric clocks along with his gum. Early in Depression he pleased the South by announcing he would convert up to $12,000,000 from his southern gum sales into cotton (TIME, April 13, 1931). He had already boosted Wrigley sales in Canada and attracted wide publicity by buying quantities of Canadian wheat in a depressed market. By the time he died in 1932 the U. S. consumption of gum had risen in 18 years from 39 sticks per capita...
...Jewish orchestra leader and romance mender give particularly able characterizations, while Gene Raymond as the in-human lever hits a new low. In spite of his assertion that he is "four years older than you are and knows all about life" we have to believe his other gem that "I have never played with anything except a violin...