Word: lane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London Stock Exchange occupies a triangular area between Throgmorton Street, Bartholomew Lane and Old Broad Street. It is drabbish outside, domed above, spacious within. The Stock Exchange is a private corporation with some 2,700 shareholders, nearly all of whom are among the 4,000 members. The membership is divided between brokers proper, acting as agents on a commission basis, and jobbers who buy and sell, trade on their own account. One man cannot be both...
Honeymoon Lane (Paramount) owes its existence almost exclusively to Funnyman Eddie Dowling. He wrote it, played it as a musical comedy for 52 weeks, turned it into a cinema leaving out all the songs except Honeymoon Lane. It is a sentimental but engaging work, at times lively with the childish antics of Ray Dooley (Mrs. Eddie Dowling), at times in the nature of a Dowling soliloquy on the virtues of faith and of cherry pie. It relates the adventures of an enterprising youth who, discharged as croupier in the gambling rooms of a resort hotel, becomes manager of a rival...
Eddie Dowling looks a bit like Manhattan's Mayor Jimmy Walker, has the same sort of insistently infectious grin. He, too, interests himself in politics, as active chairman of the New York State Democratic Theatrical League. The Dowling political loyalty perhaps more than the hygienic merits of Honeymoon Lane, caused New York's Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt to wire quotable congratulations after viewing the picture. His able campaigning for Governor Smith and Roosevelt, his huge popularity (particularly among Roman Catholics) caused Funnyman Dowling to be mentioned a year ago as a possible candidate for Governor of Rhode Island...
...women must have bought more clothing for Lane Bryant, Inc., specialist in coverings for corpulent bodies, earned $181,000 for the six months ending May 31 against a $295,000 profit...
...Cornell, with baldheaded, 30-year-old Pete McManus in the waist of the shell and seven other heavy, experienced men bending to the barks of big-voiced little Coxswain Burke, had a splendid chance. Syracuse, with six veterans and the lightest crew in the race, was in the outside lane, least protected from the wind. Washington, having beaten California, seemed to be the best of the three Western crews. Wisconsin rows only in the Poughkeepsie race and this year's crew was said to be the best that had ever come from Madison. Navy, Penn and M. I. T. were...