Word: gooding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under the shadows of the Wasatch Range, Reed Smoot attended the Brigham Young Academy, clerked in his father's store, worked in his father's woolen mill. A good Mormon, he believed that the sober labors of this life prepared for the life to come. Soberly, he subscribed to two New York newspapers of different faiths, read them comparatively for a year, solemnly concluded that only as a Republican could his business soul be saved. From that decision Reed Smoot has never since flinched...
...Mormon Church is a business as well as a religion. Reed Smoot busied himself with its finances, pulled them out of a rut, made its beet sugar and woolen enterprises return good profits. His industry, in 1903, was rewarded with an election to the U. S. Senate...
...Senator agrees with Mr. Grundy that Prosperity can flourish and blossom only in the garden of Protection behind a high tariff wall. To cultivate that garden, to keep its wall in good repair Utah's senator is prepared to give his all. With dutiful zeal he pleads for high duties on sugar and wool. With the political zeal of a stalwart Republican he demands protection for?
...facts and figures" campaign speech in Philadelphia caused a good Republican audience, provoked by his schoolmarm manner, to boo Senator Smoot...
Shady Lady (Pathe). Pretty Phyllis Haver, wanted in Manhattan for murder, lives comfortably but not idly in a hotel in Havana, Cuba, where she falls in love with a rumrunner. Good atmosphere and acting almost succeed in turning into realism the neat melodramatics that make possible a happy ending. The picture is silent except for a final talking sequence and a theme song that goes "Shady Lady, Shady Lady! Girl of my dreams." Best shots?hotel life in Havana...