Word: palmful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Palm Springs (Walter Wanger) is an attempt to commercialize the publicity which fan magazines and travel agencies have lavished on a colony of luxury hotels perched on the rim of an extinct volcano in the desert 125 miles from Los Angeles. The narrative concerns the efforts of Joan Smyth (Frances Langford) to snare a rich husband (David Xiven) in order to repay her father (Sir Guy Standing) for his sacrifices in earning a living as a gambler to provide her with the luxuries of a fashionable school. She ends by marrying Slim (Smith Ballew), owner of a dude ranch...
...avoid annoyance by gapers and because the air of Palm Springs is often dusty, none of the desert scenes were shot at the resort but at an unfashionable hamlet called Palmdale, twelve miles away. Palm Springs' exteriors were built on the Paramount lot. Among the highly agreeable music interlarding this inoffensive picture is The Hills of Old Wyoming, which Wyoming's delegates to both the Republican and Democratic National Conventions chose last week as their official song...
Meantime Mr. Kent did not neglect his social life. In 1906 he married a Philadelphia socialite named Mabel Lucas, who is a good friend of old Mrs. Edward Townsend Stotesbury. For years the Kents have been going to Bar Harbor every summer, to Palm Beach every winter. Kent yachts ply all the waters from Maine to Florida. The Kent garages must be big enough to hold a score of cars, for Mr. Kent dislikes driving the same car two days in succession. He used to buy them second hand, tinker them himself...
...French sitting in their great concrete bomb-shelters waiting for the war while the Germans quietly crawl under the forts and leave tons upon tons of T.N.T., after which they return to a lusty meal of frankfurts and sauerkraut, the enfants de la patrie firmly ensconced in the palm of their hand. The best-laid schemes, etc., etc., . . . . See you Friday...
...pound ball of the fibre, if straightened out, would stretch from coast to coast of the U. S. A woman's undergarment made of it could be concealed in the palm of the hand. It is 150% finer than any previous rayon, 33% finer than natural silk. It was developed almost simultaneously by three manufacturers and no one has an exclusive claim...