Word: mix
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Paul Visscher upon his return to Cleveland from two months among the Tortugas: barnacles, shellfish which attach themselves to ship hulls and thereby impede speed, have a sense akin to the sense of smell which makes them recoil from certain chemicals. Professor Visscher's intention is to mix a chemical of disagreeable, repellent smell into the hull paint, thus prevent barnacles clinging...
...Irish Rose); from John M. Kirkland, playwright whose Frankie and Johnnie was closed by Manhattan police last autumn; in Nogales, Mexico. Grounds: incompatibility. Said Cinemactress Carroll: "It was like cutting off our baby's curls and watching her grow up. But romance and big business simply will not mix-for long." Later it was reported she was to marry Bolton Mallory, editor-in-chief of Life...
...Barnum & Bailey last week faced charges that they have conspired to create a monopoly. Plaintiff in the suit, and asking for $1.040,000 damages, was Miller Brothers 101 Ranch show group. Alleged monopolistic acts: defacement of plaintiff's advertising, spreading of malicious rumors, the enticement of Cinemactor Tom Mix away from Miller Bros, to Sells-Floto at $12,000 per week...
There are three ingredients in this fruit cocktail. Take the author of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" and her husband, John Emerson, add two parts for movie stars, and mix with a translated Hungarian short story. Throw in a catchy title for seasoning. Shake well before presenting. The audience will add the dash of bitters...
...court last week the Government presented its case. Then Mr. Denison, one of whose three attorneys was Everett Sanders, onetime Indiana Congressman, onetime secretary to President Coolidge, took the stand, told his story: a mix-up had occurred on the steamship dock in New York. Mr. Denison had brought home a trunkful of china and glassware as gifts to relatives. By mistake this trunk went to his nephew in St. Louis and the liquor-laden trunk (presumably belonging to the nephew though Mr. Denison did not say so) arrived at the House Office Building. Declared Defendant Denison: "I never bought...