Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every Saturday Night (Twentieth Century-Fox) bathes its audience in an atmosphere of homey sweetness which should make the picture a success at any neighborhood playhouse. Mr. Evers (Jed Prouty) is the father of a "typical American family." He has a spry old mother (Florence Roberts) whose two loves are slang and coffee, a complacent wife (Spring Byington), five children who exemplify all the traditionally wholesome traits of youth. Bonnie (June Lang) is the 18-year-old apple of her father's eye except that she goes around with Clark Newall (Thomas Beck), spoiled son of the idle rich...
...truck, by irrigation in winter. Most of the water in central and southern Florida comes out of the "Ocala limestone." This dome-shaped stratum of rock comes to the surface only near Ocala, but it spreads out under all of Florida, is 100 ft. below sea level in the neighborhood of Orlando, 300 ft. below at St. Augustine. Winter rains around Ocala seep into the limestone which serves as a sort of natural reservoir under most of the State. By drilling wells to the limestone, water can be tapped and in many places brought to the surface like a stream...
...Department of Justice has been prison chaplaincies. Chief reason: the Protestant cloth seems to lose caste when associated with the cell. Last year Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings abandoned a hit-or-miss method by which U. S. penal institutions drew their chaplains from the neighborhood clergy. Into effect last week went a new system evolved with the help of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America...
Within the year a consortium of New York banks & bankers gave President Gibson the job of liquidating a batch of neighborhood banks that had closed. In the same year President Gibson headed the New York Emergency Unemployment Relief Committee, which involved a certain amount of eating out of tinware (see cut, col. 1). And to him went Manhattan's old Chatham Phenix National Bank & Trust, which was merged with Manufacturers after rumors threatened its existence. At that time Mr. Gibson swept out the portfolios of both banks, transferring assets with a dubious value of $30,000,000 to Huron...
...steady job as stoker on a transatlantic liner, to spend one blissful week at home out of every hard month. It never occurred to his simple mind, nearly as calloused as his hands, that Anne might not be contented as he was. His boozy father-in-law hinted, neighborhood gossip spoke plainer, Anne herself as good as told him that something was wrong. The most Chris could bring himself to believe was that it was nothing much. He did the proper thing, according to his lights, in beating Anne nearly dead, then scotching the gossip and his doubts by forgiving...