Word: gentleman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newspaper film, "Woman Wise". Calloway sings and struts to a number of Harlem favorites with a little more restraint than usual, introduces six lindy hoppers, who add considerable zest to the program, and presents a home-made band which nearly steals the show. This group, led by a colored gentleman who is even lazier than Steppin Fetchil, swings high and swings low on a washboard, a couple of toy trumpets, a guitar, a decrepit piano, and a siap bass...
Among the residents of "Newberry Hall," run by an elaborately folksy old gentleman named Humphrey Newberry (Charles Coburn), are a he-man who gives blood donations, a dyspeptic who reads obituary notices, a Kansas City beauty contest winner, a cinemacting goose that earns $15 per day for its owner. Plot complications are ground out when a personable newcomer (Russell Hardie) turns out to be not only a university psychologist but the estranged husband of Newberry's daughter. For humor Sun Kissed draws heavily on the special California attitude toward oranges, climate, Florida, earthquakes...
...that he was neglecting them. When Bureau airway aids became outdated because the Government cut Bureau funds 40%, Gene Vidal got the blame. When Senator Bronson Cutting was killed in a crash. Senator Copeland's investigating committee recommended Gene Vidal's resignation, commented: "He is an amiable gentleman. He has a good background. Our fear is that he is too amiable, that he is lacking in iron, positiveness and determination. . . ." Lately a series of airline crashes (TIME, Feb. 22) has brought more hot coals on Gene Vidal's head. Last week, tired and exasperated, he gave...
...dragooned into the Church, instead vacillated a while, then let his father set him up as a sheep-rancher in New Zealand. There he prospered, in five years nearly doubled his investment. And there he picked up the first of his own hangers-on, one Pauli, a somewhat shady gentleman whom Butler supported thenceforth till Pauli's death. Back in England again, Butler settled down in London to read at the British Museum, write, wait for the comfortable inheritance which would come to him when his father died. All Butler's books were published at his own expense...
Picked out of a 5?-&-10? store by a suave gentleman crook (William Powell), Fay Cheyney is willing to undertake stealing a pearl necklace from a Duchess until the ease with which she fits into the duchess' social circle makes her mission seem both humiliating and unnecessary. Lord Kelton (Frank Morgan), the richest peer in England, as well as young Lord Billing have proposed to her on the evening when, out of well-bred loyalty to her accomplices, she cracks the duchess' safe. When Lord Billing surprises her in the act of handing over her booty...