Word: law
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...living room of a shabby urban household is Grandpa Vanderhof (Lionel Barrymore), retired for 35 years because he decided one morning 'that working was no fun. His daughter, Penny Sycamore (Spring Byington). writes plays because someone once delivered a typewriter to the house by mistake; his son-in-law (Samuel Hinds) manufactures fireworks in the basement; his granddaughter, Essie (Ann Miller), studies ballet with a ferociously impecunious Russian (Mischa Auer); and the assorted camp followers of the Vanderhpf-Sycamore menage pass their time playing the xylophone, experimenting with false faces and training pet birds. Thus when Alice Sycamore (Jean...
...making Vanderhofs and Sycamores on the screen seem more like flesh and blood than they did on the legitimate stage. Examples: Grandpa's friends taking up a collection to pay his fine in court; Alice Sycamore, asked to hurry downstairs, arriving to meet her prospective parents-in-law via the bannister rail; Penny Sycamore using a kitten as a paper weight...
Last week New York was preparing to catch up. Required by a new State law was safety education in all public schools...
...radio apparatus in Schloss Sonnberg filling his log with records of the short-wave contacts he was making for a high score in an international DX contest. A week after the contest closed, a London Exchange Telegraph dispatch reported that Archduke Anton von Habsburg, brother-in-law of Rumania's King Carol, had been arrested and sent to a concentration camp because of the discovery of a "secret radio station" in his home. That news (despite prompt newspaper denials) was published in the June QST, American Radio Relay League's official publication, because Archduke Anton is OE3AH...
...years in Europe, he thought, would be enough, and then, after studying law in Boston, he would move to St. Louis...