Word: hood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ramona (Twentieth Century-Fox). The cinema's recent investigation of the U. S. past including to date The Gorgeous Hussy, Robin Hood of Eldorado, Hearts Divided, The Plainsman, The Texas Rangers, Last of the Mohicans and Daniel Boone (see col. 3), now broadens to include Novelist Helen Hunt Jackson's quiet classic about a ranch-girl's love-life in the San Jacinto mountains, circa 1870. Ramona herself is half-historical, half-fictional, half-white and half-Indian, but there is nothing halfway in the manner in which Twentieth Century-Fox has handled her biography...
...first mortgage of which $28,000,000 was to be raised immediately. Of this sum $6,000,000 was for working capital to finance increasing business and $22,000,000 was to reduce interest charges by retiring 5 ½%, 6 ½% and 7% obligations of Goodrich and its subsidiary, Hood Rubber. This plan was blocked when only 74% instead of the necessary 75% of the stockholders approved. Nigger-in-the-woodpile was Cleveland's once famed banker and utility tycoon Cyrus Stephen Eaton, whose old firm, Otis & Co., having been refused a share in underwriting the proposed issue, circularized...
...Philadelphia last fortnight, at a Robin Hood Dell Concert, José Iturbi led the Philadelphia Orchestra and Violinist Albert Spalding through the first movement of a Beethoven concerto. When, in a brief interval that followed, news cameramen began popping flashbulbs and snapping pictures, Iturbi and Spalding flounced off the stage. From an anteroom where they fumed & raged for ten minutes, a chair came whizzing into the audience's view. Explained Iturbi later: "I was annoyed and I blew...
...there was a swish, a snap. Doctors climbed through the supports, felt Bethea's pulse. The spectators closed in. At 5:44½ a. m. physicians pronounced Bethea dead. With a yell the spectators charged from every side, eager hands clawed at the black death hood. In a moment it was torn to shreds. The lucky ones stuffed the bits of black cloth proudly into their pockets. Slowly the crowd straggled away...
...safely in 61 consecutive games, smashing the Pacific Coast League record of 45 to bits. When he finished the season of 1934, the Yankees had to hurry to get an option on his services at $75,000. Manager Joe Cronin, who had been Di Maggie's boy hood hero, was ready on behalf of Thomas Yawkey with...