Word: jobs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...might lift her phrase from its context and apply it as criticism to the picture as a whole but only, in fairness, if you excluded the suavity of the tone with which it is uttered and the unfailing gaiety that gives it point. Director Marshall Neilan does a good job transposing stage values to the screen. Actress Claire plays with a deftness perfected during the weeks when she was doing The Awful Truth on Broadway. Denouement: the husband learns the awful truth of the intrigue of which he has suspected his wife, and which, of course, was not an intrigue...
...condemned to death. Ziolo Rodrignez Rabano, one of his accomplices, escaped to Florida. Because the then Minister of Executions had been released from jail "for faithful services rendered," Cuba at that time lacked an executioner. Francisco de Pineda eloquently argued his own qualifications for the position. He got the job, and his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment...
...Orders are orders," he shouted, "Ziolo? Of course I feel sorry for him, but i Que Diable! I have my job...
...particularly irate objector was Colyumist Heywood Broun of the New York Telegram. Wrote he : "I have a grave suspicion that the Rev. William S. Blackshear has somewhat mistaken his job and function. Seemingly he has begun to assume that he is chairman of the Com mittee on Admissions and that the Lord's house which he tends is one of the better country clubs. . . . There is no record that Jesus Christ ever said, 'Love thy Nordic neighbor as thyself,' or 'Suffer little Caucasian children to come unto...
...floating the new issue or it participates in floating an issue which some other house has sponsored. In the second case, it is a participant in a syndicate, in the first case it is the syndicate head, except when it does not invite any participants but handles the entire job itself, Most houses are syndicate heads in some issues, participants in many others. The lordly House of Morgan, however, is never a participant. During the present year Goldman, Sachs & Co. and G. L. Ohrstrom & Co., Inc., have also handled no issues except those in which they were the leaders...