Word: parente
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...final curtain by newspaper reporters, the girl's large father from the Texas badlands and alcoholic amnesia. Included in the proceedings is an inebriated Justice of the Peace (Hugh Cameron) whose lampoon of a toper is as amusing as Robert Middlemass' broad portrayal of the sturdy Western parent. At one point, when Mr. Middlemass has particularly good cause to suspect his daughter of impure conduct, he pulls a revolver, threatens to "let this hell stick start spitting all over the place." Unexpected Husband is inoffensively rough-&-tumble diversion...
...Woolworth, a devoted worshipper of Napoleon, showed brilliant commercial strategy by opening a store in Liverpool. F. W. Woolworth & Co., Ltd., as the British unit was called, grew until last year it operated 428 "3d to 6d Stores." During most of the past two decades the earnings of the parent company have been jumping far faster than those of the British unit. Since 1927, however, only the British earnings have kept Woolworth Co. from reporting a decrease in its own figures. And when last week Woolworth shares again neared their May high of $72 (remarkable because it bettered...
...Jimmy") Walker, trouped down to police headquarters fortnight ago to IK; on hand when Commissioner Mulrooney an nounced that one Harry Schlitten had confessed lo driving the car in which one Harry Stein had strangled Benita Franklin Bischoff. Arrested two months ago (TIME, April 20), Stein's ap parent motive was robbery. With happy satis faction, said Mayor Walker: "Commissioner, have you any newspapers here for the first few days after the murder? ... I think in justice to the Commissioner and the department that these statements . . . that the police had done away with this woman, should be pointed...
...suit for plagiarism brought by Authoress Gladys Adelina Selma Lewis ("Georges Lewys") against Playwright Eugene O'Neill, his pub lishers and the Theatre Guild. Miss Lewis had charged that in O'Neill's Strange In terlude the motif of "selective parent hood" was stolen from her privately printed book The Temple of Pallas-Athenae, which pictured a temple in Paris at which perfect young males are - in Judge Woolsey's words - "kept at stud as professional fathers." Playwright O'Neill's lawyers easily convinced the court he had never heard of Author Lewis...
With two fatal accidents involving the Harvard Flying club happening in the short space of ten days it appears that aviation has again taken a hard blow and intercollegiate flying circles especially will suffer. No parent seeing the blaring headlines of students crashing to the ground will readily become airminded to the extent that sonny will be allowed to go up in the near future. Until a fool-proof ship has been designed and put on the market, sonny must remain on the ground; while father uses the airplane in his business...