Word: grips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fields and Chester Conklin are the protagonists in "Fools for Luck", the Paramount comedy at the Metropolitan is week. The team performs much as usual in a picture based on the adventures of a slick promoter who comes to a small town with a get rich quick scheme. A grip full of oil stock, the beautiful daughter of Huntersville's leading citizen, small town life de luxe, all these things are mixed up in a rather ordinary film which has a few lsolated laughs and moments of spirited action...
This pleasantly humorous, pleasantly satirical novel tells of a man of considerable intellectual brilliance and a fine sense of humor who had become tired of writing advertisements in New York City. He packed a grip and tore off to England to settle down in a manor house in the so-called Shakespere country. He procured a Man Friday of almost superhuman ability to help him run his Elizabethan home. His young daughter, fresh from American college arrives on the scene, and various complications, including a Shakespere discovery of international importance follow to carry the tale through to the inevitable return...
...tropic climes, on opposite sides of the twirling globe, shrewd men watched anxiously, last week, the struggle of Great Britain to maintain her world monopolistic grip on rubber...
...third threat to British rubber supremacy looms in the Negro republic of Liberia, West Africa, where the plantations of Big White Rubberman Harvey Firestone are now in process of producing (TIME, Dec. 20, 1926). Meanwhile, what is being done by Great Britain to defend her grip on rubber...
There was no formality in the farewell. Simply a grip of strong hands, blue eyes searching each other, a whispered message for Murgatroyd's tutor, and they were gone...