Word: mixes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last five years, rodeo's has tripled since 1928. A good rodeo performer makes $12,000 a year; the best, more. Possibly the most dangerous sport in the world, it supports 250 performers a year, of whom many graduate to other professions. Onetime performers at Prescott were Tom Mix, Hoot Gibson, Harold Bell Wright, Russell Boardman, Earl Sande. Will Rogers reached the Ziegfeld Follies and Hollywood by way of the rodeo. Wandering about Times Square last week, wearing broad-brimmed Stetsons and high heels, were half a dozen rodeo performers whose names are as familiar to rodeo enthusiasts...
...mix a winning ball team with geisha girls and have a winning ball team left. And when you add a dash of fried eels for lunch and a bit of raw fish for dinner, the result is appalling. That was another thing that was bound to threw a nine off its stride. They say that you could get cooked food but it consisted of fish heads with the eye-balls served up as a delicacy. Even roast prime ribs of beef an just would have been welcome...
...cock-feathered Bersaglieri, the corps in which he served during the War, was passing. Out of his staff jumped Benito to shoulder a rifle and stride along with the column for over a mile. Promptly he amended his orderto his Cabinetnot only to serve with the trrops, but to mix with the trops "to get into the spirit...
Midnight Alibi (First National). Short stories by Damon Runyon generally mix good-hearted guttersnipes with nice old ladies (Lady For a Day) or babies (Little Miss Marker). The contrast makes good cinema fare. Midnight Alibi deals with a gangster named Lance (Richard Barthelmess), a rival gangster named Angie, Angie's sister (Ann Dvorak) with whom Lance is in love, and an old lady (Helen Lowell). The old lady lives in a brownstone house opposite Angie's night club. When Lance, running away from Angie's gunman, comes through her back door, she takes an interest...
...late Frank Clarence Mars cornered 20% of the candy bar business with his three leaders, Milky Way, Snicker and Honey Almond. If a worker in his well-scrubbed plant disobeyed his rule against jewelry and lost a ring or wristwatch on the job, he threw out the entire mix on which she had been working. The competition among the candy bar specialists is as quick-burning as carbohydrates. Williamson Candy's Oh Henry! (a core of fudge covered with soft caramel, rolled in loose peanuts and dipped in chocolate), was named for a neighborhood handy man, became a best...