Word: mop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...potatoes, butter, spinach, zwieback, watches that have a loud tick. He distrusts W. C. Fields. His next picture will be Mrs. Fane's Baby Is Stolen, specially written for him by George Washington's debunker, Rupert Hughes. Bombshell (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Lola Burns (Jean Harlow) has a mop of platinum blonde hair, a four-post bed in a lacquer white bedroom, a fat contract with Monarch Pictures. She has a thieving secretary, a vulgar, fatuous father, a brother so stupid that it is impossible to tell when he is drunk and three miraculously fluffy old English sheepdogs. Bombshell...
...takes showmanship nowadays to keep even so great an orchestra as the Philadelphia Symphony afloat. But showman-ship is just what Conductor Leopold ("Prince") Stokowski has a great deal of. His blond mop waving proudly, his piercing eye darting sharply among dowagers and debutantes, he was the stage manager of a show one evening last week in Philadelphia's Bellevue-Stratford Hotel. The evening's serious business was to auction off 600 unsold season concert tickets but before the hammer began falling and donors began digging down, a rare collection of talent was exhibited...
...anticipated results like these last week. They anticipated also that the meet would produce some sort of successor to Helene Madison, who like Georgia Coleman turned professional after last year's Olympics. Nonetheless, no one except possibly her coach, Jack Scarry, foresaw the exploits of a mop-haired, broad-shouldered girl named Lenore Kight, who (like Josephine McKim and Susan Laird of the 1928 Olympic team) was entered from the Carnegie Library Athletic Club of Homestead...
...accounts. Its primary business has been securities, railroad securities in particular. Kuhn, Loeb railroads include the North Western, the Delaware & Hudson, Illinois Central, Norfolk & Western, Pennsylvania, Southern Pacific, Paris-Lyon-Mediteranée. Kuhn, Loeb's railroad reorganizations include such famed roads as the B. & O., St. Paul, MOP...
...into new territory across the Mississippi, suggested the idea of a transcontinental system. This idea they vigorously deny, saying that their object was to obtain diversification in their investment, to obtain a road whose traffic, unlike that of the eastern roads, is not largely dependent upon coal. Today the MOP, in receivership, is the cat & dog of their holdings, while the C. & O., a coal road, which continues to pay dividends, is their paragon...