Word: loafered
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...seems as respectable a citizen as George V until he blandly informs the family circle that for years he has been carrying on a private system of inflation with homemade money. First result of this announcement is to rid the home of the trifling in-laws and another pompadoured loafer who has been hanging around Radfern's daughter and trying to borrow money from her father to go into the second-hand automobile business. What happens thereafter is between Scotland Yard and George Radfern, Playwright Priestley and his audience. As Radfern, Edmund Gwenn, oldtime British trouper...
...until last week, when Britain's new national Unemployment Assistance Board took over administration of the dole from local bodies, was it possible to do anything about Loafer Head. Surprised, resentful, Mr. Head suddenly found himself the object of the Crown's displeasure under the new regulation providing that it shall be criminal for dole drawers not to make "honest efforts" to get to work. Swift British Justice cracked down on Frederick Head with a sentence of one month at hard labor, and all over the British Isles dolesters abruptly began to look for work...
When another Laborite accused the Duke of Kent by inference of being a loafer and asked if ?25,000 a year about covered the needs of an unemployed man and his wife, the Prime Minister resumed his seat without deigning to reply...
...poisoning. At the University of Missouri. Coach Frank Carideo, one-time Notre Dame quarterback, ordered his players to attend classes in corduroy trousers, wear no ties or vests. Reason: "When a player begins to worry about his clothes, he becomes less of a football player and more of a loafer. I'd like to have my men dress so that when they walk down the street people will recognize them as football players...
...which contains his wife, children, chicken coop and guitar. Aline MacMahon ably portrays the proprietress, a calm, ugly, unhappy woman gloomily trying to conceal her emotion when brought face to face with a man she is trying to forget. Ann Dvorak plays her young sister, infatuated with a poolroom loafer in the nearest village. What prevents Heat Lightning from being a first rate picture is that it lacks neatness of design. Good shot: the gas-station and the road beyond illuminated by a flash of heat lightning - which serves no other purpose than to give the picture its title...