Word: mugged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forty-niners to the high-pressure system of 30 years later. As the rows of hydraulic monitors claw the gold from the hillsides with watery talons, farm lands in the valley below are mucked under by the sluiced silt. Actor George Brent commands the monitors and their tough-mug crews, backed by San Francisco financiers with "ideals and traditions of highwaymen." Shaking their fists from the valley are Farmerette Olivia de Havilland, fiery -Planter Claude Rains and a pack of farmers. The ensuing battle is long, bloody, rough on romance. But the courts finally come through with a restraining order...
...After (Warner Brothers). Five days before this picture's Manhattan opening, discreet advertisements appeared in the columns of all papers except the chaste Times. They read: "If it's love you're after-? call Circle 7-5900." This pressagent come-on was aimed at the "mug trade," to eke out Actor Leslie Howard's acknowledged carriage-trade appeal. The Strand Theatre installed four extra telephone operators, armed them with a disarmingly commercial answer, waited for the fun to start. Of 11,000 calls handled up to opening day, about 60% came from curious women, 20% from...
...name linked frequently with that of Soprano Lily Pons since he led the orchestra in her first two pictures (I Dream Too Much, That Girl From Paris). Commuting last year between Hollywood and Manhattan by airplane, "Kosty" flew 126,000 miles, earned from four appreciative airlines a silver mug and the title of No. 1 air traveler in the land (TIME, Feb. 1). An accomplished orchestrator, Conductor Kostelanetz was at the same time rated No. 1 in radio popularity. He specializes in lush, full-blown arrangements of popular and semiclassical numbers and this week on his radio half-hour...
...came in in 22 min. 2 sec. As coxswain, the Conte di Savoia's First Officer Pietro Passano joyously received the kisses of his crew, then for good measure kissed the cup he got from the hands of Chairman Kennedy. The eight oarsmen each got an individual silver mug...
Challenger. Racing for the America's Cup tends to become an obsession. From 1899 through 1930, proprietor of the obsession was Great Britain's famed Sir Thomas (tea) Lipton, who spent $4,000,000 on five unsuccessful tries to "lift the Mug." Skipper Sopwith challenged for the Cup for the first time in 1934. Beaten after a disputed finish in the fourth race, he sailed home in a rage, announced he would never challenge again, took almost two years to change his mind. Famed principally as an airplane manufacturer, whose first appearance on the U. S. scene...