Word: paws
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...team? Quake property, the eastern coaches rear to meet the Yale chimpanzees on the gridiron. Their boys would have no chance at all against a team who see players could leap mine fact in the air on a line "buck or Jerk down a runner with a single hairy paw. Chicago Daily Tribune...
...reviewing Harold Lloyd's new film, The Cat's Paw, your critic tells how "the son of a Chinese missionary (Harold Lloyd) ... returns to his hometown to find himself a wife...
...Paw (Harold Lloyd) is the first picture manufactured by its star since 1932. Unlike its predecessors, it contains no nerve-wracking escapes from railroad trains, no breathless danglings from skyscraper ledges. It is "straight" comedy about the son of a Chinese missionary and the difficulties he encounters when he returns to his hometown to find himself a wife...
...delay that followed Harold Lloyd's last picture Movie Crazy (TIME, Sept. 26, 1932) was partly due to the fact that he could find no suitable story. He bought The Cat's Paw when Author Clarence Budington Kelland had finished only the first chapter, offered suggestions to make the part more to his taste. When the story was finished Producer Lloyd was amazed to find that none of the antics which his private staff of "gagmen" usually arrange for him seemed to fit the plot. He finally accepted the advice of his director, Sam Taylor, to make...
...Lately he reached the U. S. from Asia on a tour around the world. Paris chuckled last week at news that "Momo," pulling a solemn face, had visited the U. S. Senate, steered by California's Hiram Johnson who guided his flaccid right hand into the rough-textured paw of Vice President John Garner. Paris was not surprised that "Momo," before reaching Washington, had visited the Chicago Century of Progress and care fully inspected that show's latest thing in painted nudity - Miss Mona Leslie who pops up out of a fountain, does a dance and finally plunges...