Word: handly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the deft, directorial hand of Howard Hawks, Bringing Up Baby comes off second only to last year's whimsical high spot, The Awful Truth, but its gaily inconsequent situations cannot match the fuselike fatality of that extraordinary picture. Bringing Up Baby's slapstick is irrational, rough-&-tumble, undignified, obviously devised with the idea that the cinemaudience will enjoy (as it does) seeing stagy Actress Hepburn get a proper mussing...
...Assistant Secretary of War, thin-haired, pipe-smoking Colonel Louis Arthur Johnson, puffed out a big boast: "No matter what anyone may say, the United States is supreme today in airplanes-supreme in quality and in numbers." Colonel Johnson declared "the numbers stand about as follows: U. S. (on hand and under construction) 16,000; France 11,000; Russia 10,000; Great Britain 9,000; Germany 8,000; Italy 7,000; Japan 7,000." Listeners knew he must be including every last U. S. airplane, from flivver to biggest Army bomber. They knew also that most airplane records for speed...
...Jersey's Assemblymen were puzzled by a bill introduced last month permitting use of the bow & arrow in hunting brant, gallinules, coots, dowitchers, turn-stones, godwits, tattlers, certain other more common game birds and animals. Blind, rosy-cheeked Assemblyman Thomas M. Muir of Plainfield asked Assemblywoman Constance W. Hand, sponsor of the bill: "What is a godwit?" Mrs. Hand: "I'm sure I don't know what godwits are." Assembly Speaker Herbert J. Pascoe, from the chair: "They come from North Plainfield." Assemblymen looked the godwit up, found it is a long-legged, long-billed wading bird...
...familiarize new Commissioners Jerome Frank and John Hanes with a two-and-a-half-year-old Wall Street investigation upon which a decision appeared near at hand, SEC held a review of the charges that White, Weld & Co. manipulated the stock of A. 0. Smith Corp...
Cotton is planted in rows some three feet apart and when the plants are a few inches high they have to be thinned out into hills about twelve inches apart, two or three plants to a hill. Because it has always been done by hand labor with a hoe, this thinning is called "chopping." From April to June every year the South's cotton fields are full of an army of choppers, each doing about an acre a day. In 1920 a San Antonio jack-of-all-trades named Ellis Albaugh visited his brother-in-law at Seguin...