Word: lombard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...restoring the embargo on the export of gold and the increase in our exchange [fund] which was decided upon long before we had any conception that the United States Government might abandon the gold standard. . . ." These were soft words for foreign consumption. Hardly was the speech finished before Lombard Street tipsters were insisting that the present ?150,000,000 fund would be raised to ?200,000,000 possibly to ?500,00,000 in preparation for a duel with the dollar. Wrote Economist John Maynard Keynes: "It demonstrates that we intend to remain the masters of our own situation. The United...
...personage reaches this sad predicament. A plot which is more of an insinuation than a narrative implies that the soul of Bavian's dead mistress, a lady sadist executed for strangling three of her lovers, comes back to inhabit temporarily the body of a pure young heiress (Carole Lombard) who consults Bavian to get news of her dead twin brother. The heiress faints during a seance; when she wakes up, her eyes have a fiendish glitter. She entices Bavian aboard her yacht. He breaks out of her cabin in a puzzled panic and manages to strangle himself, apparently...
...seating of the two 150-pound crews for their workout yesterday afternoon was: the first boat: stroke, A. M. Brown '34; 7, H. N. Stevens '35; 6, G. F. Lombard '33; 5, L. L. Filstrup '33; 4, N. D. Jay '35; 3, W. H. Dunbar '35; 2, J. T. Nichols '34; bow, C. M. Campbell '33; cox, F. F. Jones...
...Hollywood, where studios were only slightly damaged, Maurice Chevalier was recording a love song beside a pool of swans. He & swans instantly stopped work. Marlene Dietrich was autographing a photograph for a friend. The pen made a wild sweep. Miss Dietrich dated the picture to commemorate the occasion. Carole Lombard was flung from a fitting stand in the wardrobe room...
From Hell to Heaven (Paramount). Beginning with Jack Oakie's first speech, "People come and people go but nothing ever happens around here," this is a frank but entertaining composite of Grand Hotel and its imitations. An innovation is showing the characters at a racetrack. Carole Lombard comes to the track to test the faithfulness of her lover (Sidney Blackmer) before announcing to him the tidings of her divorce. David Manners and Adrienne Ames come as a harried young couple attempting to recoup purloined funds, closely tracked by Detective Jackson who is persuaded to content himself with shooting Crook...