Word: pal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...friend A. J. Gregory came through with another beat the other day. Some "pal" rushed up to him just before his ascent to flickering filament and said, "I see you've got the zero to 7:30 watch next Tuesday...
...perfectly the naive glamor which should invest the characters in a story for children and lends the dogs excellent support. That the shabby, endearing little dog named Toots fails to run away with the show and bury it like a bone is due only to the startling magnificence of Pal, who plays Lassie, and to the remarkable abilities of Rudd Weatherwax, who trained and directed...
Lassie is the Mei Lan-fang of dog actors. She is a he. The name used to be Pal. Pal was born the runt of his litter. For a while, Trainer Rudd Weatherwax, who readies quite a few dogs and cats for the screen, had given Pal up as histrionically hopeless. But when M.G.M. saw the first rushes for Lassie, they immediately upped Pal's salary from $90 to $250 per week. Even Pal's stand-in got $100 a week...
Open Hands, Cold Feet. Said Willie Bioff to the Court: Back in 1934 he was just a smalltime operator in Chicago labor circles, working with his pal, George E. Browne, ex-president of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes. (Both are now serving time for extortion.) "The Syndicate" took Bioff and Browne over. Thereafter, Chicago movie exhibitors-and finally even the big Hollywood studios-paid heavily and often for the usual "protection" from what was euphemistically called "labor trouble...
...cross between a snake, a seal and a stoat. It was just as much of a shock for the hross to meet a hmãn. Fortunately, they were both hnau (thinking animals) and after jointly slaying a hnakra, a jabberwockative monster, the hross made Ransom his blood hnakrapunt (pal...