Word: hoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Halliday) scuttling to Europe with his wife (Myrna Loy) and mistress (Greta Nissen); an aged lens-grinder (Jean Hersholt), using all his savings on a holiday for himself and daughter (Lois Moran); a gang of international rogues; and another rogue (Edmund Lowe) who combines the faculties of Robin Hood, Don Quixote and deus ex machina. He forms a liking for the banker's wife, causes her husband to desert his mistress...
Presently the shipboard newsheet reveals to the lens-grinder that his savings are lost in the failure whose consequences the banker is trying to escape. When the banker is shot in his cabin, the bearded lens-grinder goes to the brig. Robin Hood gets him out, not without severe inconvenience to himself. These and subsidiary developments, neatly compacted, gain force from high-paced direction, employment of frequent opportunities for smart photography. Good shots: a gunfight along the seamy rails and ladders of the engine room; a corridor sign flashing "SILENCE" outside the room in which the banker has been shot...
...last week President Hoover arose from his luncheon in the White House and, instead of returning immediately to his office, went upstairs to his dressing room. There with the aid of Boris, his valet, he put on formal morning clothes. At 2:15 Chief Usher Irwin Hood ("lke") Hoover knocked on his door. "The new Canadian Minister is here, Mr. President," he announced. A last pat to his necktie and President Hoover descended the stairs, entered the Blue Room, took a good solid stand near its centre. Usher Hoover threw open the door from the Green Room. In marched square...
Raymond Mathewson Hood, Manhattan architect...
...York, able, bristle-haired Architect Raymond Hood (Chicago World's Fair) approves the idea of cities consciously rebuilding themselves as a cure for unemployment, points out that the average life of a Manhattan skyscraper is only 20 years and likely to be reduced. He adds another thought...