Word: goldenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Golden Boy (Columbia) is not the first prize-fighter picture whose hero fails to win the championship, but it is the first to portray a fighter as a pitiable neurotic. Joe Bonaparte (William Holden) has a beautiful pair of hands, which he can use to equal effect playing the violin or smashing a face. The violin seems likely to win out with thoughtful Joe until Manager Tom Moody (Adolphe Menjou), threatened with the loss of a promising meal ticket, gets his girl, Lorna Moon (Barbara Stanwyck), to stiffen Joe's spine. In Clifford Odets' play, Joe never...
...Black. In round numbers the Golden Gate Exposition's figures through July 31 showed...
...promoters of world's fairs like to describe their shows as exhibitions of culture. For that reason Grover Whalen long insisted that New York's World of Tomorrow would have no displays of nudity, a rule not too closely observed. San Francisco's Golden Gate International Exposition felt the same way. It allowed Sally Rand to establish a "Dnude Ranch" on Treasure Island, but boasted in advance that its Palace of Fine and Decorative Arts would draw more paying customers...
...Golden Gate Exposition was not set up like New York's World of Tomorrow. The New York Fair burdened itself with $26,995,000 worth of bonds which were supposedly to be paid off, and although it has operating profits of $4,105,000, it has still some $30,000,000 of bonds and debts...
...Golden Gate Exposition instead of selling bonds collected $6,000,000 in "contributions" and the contributors have only an equity in any possible net profits. So the Exposition had as liabilities only its $4,900,000 of bank loans, debts to contractors etc., of which $686,000 has been paid off. The Fair has now in the till upwards of $1,500,000 (allocated to its creditors but not yet paid), leaving its net liabilities at approximately...