Word: goldfishing
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...tougher and slicker criminal than he. In the process of trying to get ransom without calling in the police, the kidnappee gets half a dozen characters and a hopelessly complicated situation on the stage by the end of Act II. When the hobo begins shooting, he hits a goldfish bowl. The innocent owner of the kidnap apartment, who happens to be the toughest and slickest criminal of them all, walks in and settles everything so well that the police arrest him, shoo the others away...
...attractively homely face, gives her performances a peculiarly effective quality. For Little Friend her clothes were designed by Schiaparelli. She goes to a private school at Wimbledon, speaks French and German, sews frocks, knits scarves, cooks Swiss rolls, owns a black and white cat, an ivory mouse, a goldfish and a coin with the Lord's prayer engraved on it. Ending a month's visit to the U. S. she last week sailed for England where she will make two pictures a year for the next two years...
Once rid of its skin, the reptile will resume its menu of dead goldfish, which its Sophomore master wheedles from the ten-cent store, and will resume its role as Exhibit A in Mr. Folk's lectures on snake-lore...
...mother's business, met Producer Jesse L. Lasky, collaborated with him on an oper etta called California. Lunching together one day in the summer of 1913, Lasky asked DeMille, "Why don't you go into motion pictures?" Replied DeMille: "I will if you will." A friend named Sam Goldfish joined them. The three pooled about $5,000 each...
...goldfish-like life of the President of the U. S. bothers Franklin D. Roosevelt-less than it has many of his predecessors. Last weekend, however, he felt the need of some real privacy. Accompanied only by Mrs. Roosevelt, her friend Miss Lorena Hickok, his personal secretary Marguerite Le Hand, he boarded the Government yacht Sequoia and cruised down the Potomac to meditate on one of the Administration's major problems: how to get the wheels of heavy industry turning and employ the workers of heavy industry who in spite of PWA and NRA still remain idle...