Word: joel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...banked turns, will have their first chance to compete with the best European road drivers, of whom many are socialites like Italy's Count Antonio Brivio, England's Hon. Brian Lewis and Francis Richard Henry Penn Curzon, 5th Earl Howe. Only U. S. amateur driver entered is Joel Thorne, onetime outboard motorboat champion and grandson of the late Banker Samuel Thorne, who has seven cars in the race, plans to drive one himself. First prize in the Columbus Day race, in addition to the new Vanderbilt Cup, will be $20,000, plus accessory and lap prizes...
Adapted by Kubec Glasmon (Public Enemy), Horace McCoy and the New York Herald Tribune's onetime crack crime reporter, Joel Sayre, Parole is unlikely to affect the U. S. penal system but it should not disappoint cinemaddicts who like rapid-fire entertainment. Typical shot: Noah Beery Jr., no gorilla-faced "heavy" like his father but a boy-scout type juvenile, receiving a bullet in the back...
...that Lewis G. Carlisle of East Islip, N. Y., to whom Yale owes credit for many points, won the American high point championship, competing throughout the season against the crack drivers of America. The following year he was succeeded by Joel Thorne who, as a representative of Rutgers University, won the intercollegiate individual championship...
...school in an old farmhouse that had belonged to Karen Wright's (Miss Oberon) grandmother. When Mary Tillford (Bonita Granville), a problem child and granddaughter of the community's most prominent matron, fabricates a scandal about the conduct of her attractive young school-mistresses with handsome Dr. Joseph Cardin (Joel McCrea), rich mamas and papas withdraw their patronage. A libel suit to bring the matter out into the air miscarries, with the help of Mrs. Mortar (Catherine Doucet), and the fortunes of all three accused are ruined. So runs the tale, a very interesting and at times absorbing...
Martha Dobie (Miriam Hopkins) and Karen Wright (Merle Oberon) open a school for girls in an old house Karen has inherited from her grandmother. Young Dr. Joseph Cardin (Joel McCrea) helps them and falls in love with Karen. One of her grandmother's acquaintances, Mrs. Tilford, befriends them by sending her little granddaughter, Mary (Bonita Granville), to their school and recommending it to her friends. Mary Tilford, shrewd, neurotic and remorseless, hates schools in general and this one in particular. One night she hears a strange noise in Martha's room, and from then on all the cards...