Word: knobs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chuck Connors (Wallace Beery) is a loud, muddleheaded, arrogant publican, proud of his door-knob derby hat and the biggest barroom on the Bowery. He dis trusts women, entertains a sentimental regard for a waif called Swipes (Jackie Cooper) whose favorite pastime is throwing stones through the windows of a Chinese laundry. Steve Brodie (George Raft ) is a different type of Bowery sport, a sleek, rakish gambling man, envious of Connors' prestige. When Connors befriends a respectable girl (Fay Wray) to the extent of letting her be his cook, slick Brodie promptly makes her his fiancée. When...
Eligio Sardinias y Montalvo ("Kid Chocolate"), generally acknowledged featherweight champion of the world, is a wiry, knob-fisted Cuban Negro whose quick, malicious dexterity makes him one of the most exciting fighters in the world to watch. His opponent in Manhattan last week was a serious little Englishman, Seaman Tom Watson, who acquired a strange flat-footed technique by learning to box on the heaving deck of a battleship. The best featherweight in Europe, he began to commute to the U. S. for fights last autumn, returning after each one to tend the Newcastle bar which he bought...
...leaned, graceful and impassive, against a small table by the fire. Now he moved. Slowly, easily, he limped across the great carpet and paused at the white paneled doors. "What a pity," he remarked, "that such a great man should be so ill bred." Quietly he turned the knob, and disappeared down the long hall...
...idea--me and Lowell--good men--got ideas--open door--funny knob--round and round--quiet now--foot's asleep--don't wake...
...could reveal more by a roguish shrug, by an ironically poised understatement, than a volume with footnotes. Castlereagh and Talleyrand, ravelling and unravelling the maze at Vienna, the first Napoleon and the third, playing with the bright counters of empire, Victoria with her angel and Bismarck with the door-knob in his hand;--we have hear about them often, but only known them once. We shall hear about them again, but nevertheless they are going. And for this the Vagabond laments...