Word: kit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Walking on Air (RKO) is a breezy comedy about the rich girl, Kit (Ann Sothern), who tries to force her father to let her marry a handsome bounder by pretending to be in love with a penniless college boy, Pete (Gene Raymond), whom she pays to masquerade as an objectionable French count. Sole variation on this time-honored theme is that Pete is also a crooner seeking a job in radio. This gives him opportunity to sing several pleasant new melodies (Cabin on the Hill-tot), Let's Make A Wish, My Heart Wants to Dance...
Just as he lands his job on a big-time program, Kit's family sees through his insults, she through his songs. Unhappily obstinate, she heads for Arizona and marriage to the bounder. How Pete, in the middle of his first broadcast before a swank crowd, succeeds in stopping her is too ridiculous to be funny: While his partner holds the radio station at bay by pretending to have a gun, Crooner Pete breaks off singing, babbles impassioned pleas to Kit over...
...rise as a party politician that at the age of 34 Giuseppe Bottai was Fascist Minister of Corporations, wielding more power than Il Duce thought good for him. Soon he was kicked upstairs to be Fascist Governor of Rome. When the African adventure developed, Fascist Bottai packed his kit without a word of protest, sailed for Ethiopia as a simple major of the line. For being a good boy, he had his reward last week when he was made civil governor of Addis Ababa...
...fidelity business of the company consists of bonding employees. The foregoing quotations in italics are from a "sales kit" used by National salesmen to convince employers of the necessity for bonding employees. One harrowing case history tells of a bank with deposits of $101,000 from which the cashier stole $93,000. Another told of a publishing-house cashier, a "weak, vacillating individual dominated by an extravagant wife," who stole $67,490 to keep up his social standing. Salesmen are instructed to emphasize the dangers of under-bonding, to cite the case of a tobacco company cashier who was bonded...
...plans for sky mobilization in case of war are kept in the colonel's safe. Last week Sergeant Keiffer of the night patrol drove off four strangers with gun fire, rushed into the colonel's office, found the safe drilled almost open and on the floor a kit of brand-new burglar tools...