Word: jujitsu
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GOLD COMES IN BRICKS-A. A. Fair-Morrow ($2). Alta Ashbury wrote $10,000 checks to "Cash." Ultimately her rich papa got Bertha Cool and Donald Lam to look into a matter of blackmail seasoned with murder. Donald, a little, disbarred lawyer whom women adore, even outsmarts Hashita, his jujitsu teacher...
...Moriz Rosenthal boasts that he can tear a pack of cards in half, break an iron horseshoe with his bare hands, snap a taut piano string with one blow of his index finger, lift a 200-lb. weight over his head. Long a student of jujitsu, he took up boxing in his 60s, has trained for several months under the guidance of Welsh Heavyweight Tommy Farr...
...Moto, a soft-spoken Japanese with poached-egg eyes and a thorough knowledge of jujitsu, solved some nasty criminal problems. A boxing glove soaked in poison, and a gun with a time device set up under the prize ring and pointed at Mr. Moto's seat all fitted into the pattern of a shady betting deal. Mr. Moto establishes a connection with Charlie by instructing Charlie's collegiate son, Lee Chan (Keye Luke), in a criminology class...
...corpuscles eventually replace the decimal points in Atterbury's blood. Miss Plum teaches him jujitsu and the rhumba, becomes his secretary. He refuses to send to Switzerland for edelweiss. He causes Miss Cheri to break her contract under the moral turpitude clause by getting her so drunk she slips under a table in the Biltmore. When the bank sells the studio over his head and fires him, he organizes studio employes to defy the new owner, throws Nassau out with a jujitsu hold, saves Cheri's last picture by having it recut to star a gorilla. Stand...
...truckin'," singing prairie ballads in duo with him, listening to his tender homespun verse, with Jerry an amused and disturbing audience. As Lucy's life becomes more madly muddled, with three men complicating it, the comedy turns slapstick. High spots are Jerry's discomfiting brush with jujitsu at the expert hands of the singing teacher's Japanese houseboy, the free-for-all that follows Mr. Smith's canine persistence in playing go-find with two shriekingly circumstantial derby hats in Lucy's apartment. From this climax, when all Lucy's indiscretions are aired...