Word: guys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...under an NRA code were deserting to take better-paying CWA jobs. While relief officials were investigating, Georgia's Governor Talmadge charged that CWA was also hiring help away from the farm. He complained that Federal authorities would not listen to his protests. CWAdministrator Hopkins retorted: "All that guy is after is headlines. He doesn't contribute a dime but he's always yapping. Some people just can't stand to see others making a living wage." Three days later NRAdministrator Johnson leaped into the controversy to declare: "It's perfectly absurd...
...glib, disorganized batch of footnotes on a familiar aspect of U. S. business. It deals with the Atlantic City convention of the Honeywell Rubber Co. President J. B. Honeywell (Grant Mitchell) is to choose a new general salesmanager. Slick Adolphe Menjou wants the job. So does paunchy Guy Kibbee. But both of them get into trouble. Salesman Kibbee paws at a wench (Joan Blondell) who maneuvers him into the first stage of the badger game. Salesman Menjou is discredited when a jealous saleswoman (Mary Astor) interferes with his attentions to President Honeywell's daughter. The salesmanager-ship finally goes...
...Claire Luce and Dancer Fred Astaire. brother of Lady Charles Cavendish, were doing their light-footed, rubber-hipped dance from the musicomedy Gay Divorce. ¶Arrested three weeks ago for "uttering, knowing the contents thereof to be false, a letter demanding money from the King, with menaces," one Clarence Guy Gordon-Haddon, 43, unemployed engineer and War veteran, was committed for trial in Old Bailey court last week by a reluctant Crown...
...Stet's square, good-looking face was already turning grey. At college he never touched a drop to drink, never smoked, never used bad language. He became head of the college Y.M.C.A.. and also King of the Imps (noted for their heavy drinking), was rated a "swell guy" and finally was elected president of the Academic department. His inherited drive was already in full swing...
...fellow literary man; warming up to him, a little, if a head tutor could he so described, Said Mr. Dreiser, firmly and loudly: "Say, that's quite a moustache you've got there -- you ought to be in Hollywood." The students all thought Dreiser was quite a guy. --The Bystander...