Word: hat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Embryonic screen writers were told that a screen story to be successful must contain the stock formula of "Boy meets girl". Studio executives, she said, assign writers to build such stories around a star, a baby starlet, 100 beauty contest winners, a song, or somebody's wife's hat. You must be able to tell the director your story in one sentence, she warned, or it will not be considered...
...even pausing to remove coat or hat, Professor Elliot bent his back to the task, and assisted by the driver, another passer-by, and Jim Curwen, swimmer extraordinaire, saw to it that the entangled fenders were released...
Arrested on Monday for distributing flyers advertising last night's Communist rally, Kendall P. Smith 2G talked his way out of the Cambridge police head quarters when he convinced authorities hat the city ordinance requiring a pernit for distributing advertising matter a unconstitutional...
...railroad cutting." Hanley, England (see cut) is an example. In workers' housing the one-family room became standard from Dublin to Bombay. Coketown (Mumford's name for the industrial city taken from Dickens' Hard Times), was so shrouded with smoke that "the black stove pipe hat was almost a functional design...
...another novel. The wife of a refrigeration engineer (her real name is Mrs. John Gasparotti), Prize-winner Seifert won over 1,200 contestants with Young Doctor Galahad, a story of a small-town physician, planned to use her winnings to educate her four children. For herself she bought a hat, a dress, a pair of shoes, a new typewriter. Said Moberly's mayor: "It's the biggest thing that has happened to this town since the mine disaster...