Word: heeling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Statue of Liberty (heel to head...
...Senator David Baird's machine, installed a City Commission, ran up the Courier's circulation from 9,000 to 80,000, won his campaign for a bridge across the Delaware River. Across that bridge five years ago Publisher Stern marched into Philadelphia and bought the down-at-heel little Record. Since 1928 Publisher Stern and his able Editor Harry Saylor have built the Record's daily circulation from 100,000 to 150,000, doubled its Sunday circulation...
...Press, the remainder of a worried world hastened to assess the importance of a statistically perfect national revival. A great many have seen fit to rant in humanitarian terminology. The election, so goes the story, was a tragic farce, the picture of a people baring its neck to the heel of a despot. The claim is easily substantiated, but it is a close approach to stupidity to inveigh particularly upon a means when confronted by a commanding fait accompli. For, through one argument or another, Herr Hitler has crushed out party and state lines within Germany. He has, temporarily...
Tillie and Gus (Paramount). Tillie (Alison Skipworth) is the dilapidated proprietress of a waterfront gambling house in China. Gus (W. C. Fields) is a down-at-heels Alaskan gambler, who has just escaped being lynched for murder. Long since divorced, Gus and Tillie are reunited by the terms of Tillie's brother's will: he bequeaths them an antique mortgage-ridden ferryboat. Living on the boat when Tillie and Gus come to claim it are Tillie's niece (Jacqueline Wells), her husband and an imperturbable infant (Baby LeRoy). It becomes necessary, in order to thwart a rival...
...Party (by Ivor Novello, produced by William A. Brady and Samuel F. E. Nirdlinger) is a slice of pure snob entertainment off the heel of the loaf. It projects a party given for a famed young London actress after her opening night: Lora Baxter in distant simulacrum of Tallulah Bankhead. Plot: Miss Baxter inveigles her old lover, now married, into kissing her. His little wife sees the kiss and tries to die by gulping all of what she thinks is Miss Baxter's cocaine. But it is only powdered sugar and her swoon is a symptom only of autosuggestion...