Word: jigged
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...July 1934 it looked as if the jig was up. His habit of kicking and biting policemen earned him another three months in jail, but M. Besson, still trusting in his parliamentary immunity, dismissed this scornfully...
Last week, 124 of the 231 went back, cooing with pleasure, to these same public rooms for a reunion unique in shipwreck history. Pulled off the reef, the Dixie. had been completely repaired in jig-time at a cost of $468,000. Ready to return to her regular run between New York and New Orleans, she was docked in Manhattan while her owners achieved a new high for astute public relations by inviting all the shipwreck victims within likely distance to a luncheon aboard her. Stuffing themselves on lamb chops and ice cream, the 124 traipsed through the ship, chattered...
...social-climbing snob who has changed their name to Murfree. Mike Donovan (Addison Randall) is Charles Murfree's campaign publicity manager. It is Mike who becomes attached to Murfree's daughter Elinor but it is Pat who horrifies Mrs. Murfree by his frowzy appearance, dances an authentic jig at a political rally, conducts a senile romance with a female ward-leader named Oulihan (Maureen Delany) and finally wins the election for his son by appearing on a rostrum to denounce Murfree's rival for attempted kidnapping...
Based on the highly debatable theory that the Celtic character is the most charming and the most comical of human phenomena, His Family Tree is principally a frame for James Barton's elaborate embroideries in brogue, blarney, eye-twin-kling and jig-steps. That an obsolete comicstrip narrative is not actually offensive is due to the skill of Joel Sayre and John Twist who adapted it for the screen. Good shot: Barton's skit of a drunk trying to read a newspaper which ends when he has rolled it helplessly into a soggy ball...
After the court approved the plan (which includes a change of name to Paramount Pictures), the only missing jig in the Paramount puzzle was the executive staff. Last week Paramount's 17 new directors got together in Manhattan, attended to this final detail. Old Mr. Zukor was given a berth as board chairman but key job of executive committee chairman went to Mr. Fortington. Picked for president was John Edward Otterson, 54, a tall, quiet, iron-haired onetime Naval officer who has long headed Electrical Research Products, Inc., American Telephone & Telegraph's spectacular subsidiary...