Word: mops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Madame Butterfly (Paramount). Because Sylvia Sidney has almond-shaped eyes it was inevitable that one day she would be given a kimono and a mop of black hair on top of her head, taught to walk with mincing steps, compelled to use the adjective "velly" in a squeaky treble. She does it all as prettily as could be expected in Madame Butterfly, expensively handled as an individual production by Paramount's onetime production chief, Benjamin Percival Schulberg...
...trial lawyer in France is richer or more feared than that spry little Senator with a great mop of grey hair, Maître Joseph Paul-Boncour. In Geneva they used to know him as the perennial No. 2 French Delegate to the League, Aristide Briand being No. 1. Often, while No. 1 slumbered or seemed to slumber in his aisle seat, blocking the egress of other French Delegates, nimble No. 2 would leave and return to his seat by leaping lightly over a desk, thus permitting No. 1 to slumber...
...Frances Judson McCoy, wife of the U. S. member, General Frank Ross McCoy, entered her hotel bedroom, caught a servant red handed in the act of "dusting." "Splendid!" cried Mrs. McCoy. "The room is dirty isn't it? I am so glad you are dusting! Now get a mop and mop the floor." For two long hours the Japanese spy scrubbed, kept up the pretense that he was a Chinese "boy" (servant). "Now that everything is clean," brightly observed Mrs. McCoy, "I want you to move all the furniture. Bring that bed here. Move that bureau over there...
...important roles in The Riding Voice, Taxi, The Hatchet Man, Play Girl. Appealing modulation of voice and manner, decorous softness of demeanor are Cinemactress Young's chief characteristics on the screen; she attributed them in part to her schooling in a Los Angeles convent. The fluffiness of her brown mop she attributes to her habit of shampooing it with cleaning fluid...
Marathon, First as the runners left the stadium after the start was a 20-year-old, 114-lb. Argentinian newsboy, Juan Carlos Zabala. He wore blue trunks, a white polo hat to protect him from the sun, carried a handkerchief to mop his face. The field of 28 plodded through the hot streets of Los Angeles. They had 26 mi., 385 yd. to go in the race that closed the track & field events of the Xth Olympiad...