Word: melone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Corporation, owned by retired Stars Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Charles Chaplin and Producers Samuel Goldwyn and Alexander Korda. A private corporation, United Artists keeps its business largely to itself, occasionally gloats in the trade press over large but unrevealed profits. Month ago the five owners met, split a modest melon...
...melon is cut each year by the National Academy of Design. With its annual exhibition recently limited to just over 500 paintings, prints, drawings and pieces of sculpture, it has three medals and 15 prizes totaling $4,375 to distribute, not to speak of the dozen or so new memberships conferred on promising exhibitors who consider it a cachet to write A. N. A. after their names. Last week this melon was cut and on a crowded varnishing day the 112th exhibition of the National Academy of Design opened...
...rescinded, Yale's press agent (Eddie Nugent) pounds out enthusiastic copy. Texas Coach Slug Winters (Jack Haley) is enthusiastic, too, until his tough wife Bessie (Patsy Kelly) fractures his star passer's leg. In time's nick Slug fills the gap with a barefoot Texas melon-grower named Amos (Stuart Erwin) who can toss a cantaloupe incredible distances, learns to do even better with a football. Despite the intervention of a blizzard, the charms of Arline Judge and a good deal of assorted harmonizing, Amos wins the Yale game by taking off his shoes and stockings...
Sixteen new British war boats will soon be laid down, four new British war aerodromes laid out; the rearmament estimate melon is cut among Britain's fighting services thus: Navy $406,445,000; Army $279,555,000; Air Force...
With the fattest melon to cut in many a year, the National Academy of Design opened its 111th exhibition in Manhattan last week, showed 530 paintings, prints and pieces of sculpture, awarded $4,250 in prizes to 15 different artists...