Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...middle-aged newspaperman who came to Hollywood, took up flying, I found $28 per $1,000 per annum lowest aviation death rate obtainable from American insurance companies; Lloyd's have just insured...
...church does perform a definitely progressive function in contemporary society, its continued existence is extremely precarious. When the bishops of one of the leading American sects fail to appreciate the moral fortitude which has characterized the attitude of the people during the last five tragic years, when they allow Hollywood and Reno to blind them to the beneficial social legislation which has been written on the law books of the country during the past decade, they are giving evidence of a narrow and bigoted point of view which has no place in the nation today. No organization which takes such...
...proud, the producers saw fit to launch their actors on a communistic experiment of the most extreme kind. Getting away from the intricacies of money and all the characteristics of complex existence, all the worldly belongings of the community are thrown into a common fund. Such heresy out of Hollywood must be very shocking to all good, rugged individualists. Over-simplified as the story is, it does give a very interesting study in elementary division of labor for our rising young economic theorists, as the unemployed adventurers start economic life all over again...
...Priest"--Will Rogers, who is rapidly becoming our favorite screen philosopher and pater familias, in a very pleasing story of life in a quiet little Kentucky hamlet where the chief topic of conversation is still the Civil War and those "damned Yankees." Anita Louise will make you wish that Hollywood were a bit more accessible...
...year; the best, more. Possibly the most dangerous sport in the world, it supports 250 performers a year, of whom many graduate to other professions. Onetime performers at Prescott were Tom Mix, Hoot Gibson, Harold Bell Wright, Russell Boardman, Earl Sande. Will Rogers reached the Ziegfeld Follies and Hollywood by way of the rodeo. Wandering about Times Square last week, wearing broad-brimmed Stetsons and high heels, were half a dozen rodeo performers whose names are as familiar to rodeo enthusiasts as the names of Babe Ruth, Mickey Cochrane and Dizzy Dean to sports-page readers in the East...