Word: peake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charles's pretty cousin (Elissa Landi) has mysteriously disappeared, Nick Charles finds him in a cabaret but he has barely time to drink his health before the scapegrace staggers out to be murdered. Detective Charles then settles down to drink and work in earnest. His evening reaches its peak when, in a room containing half a dozen dangerous characters and a police aide (Sam Levene), the lights suddenly go off and shooting starts. Insuperably nonchalant Detective Charles utilizes this moment for a quick drink...
...advertising agency launched its star account, Standard Brands, on a new radio venture. The Chase & Sanborn (coffee) division of Standard Brands had scored heavily on the air with Major Bowes and his amateurs. Then Walter P. Chrysler bought the Major away, at a time when many admen thought his peak of popularity was passed (TIME, June 22). It was up to the Thompson agency to top radio's top show in a year when novelty and unusual program ideas were being demanded in no uncertain terms by broadcast sponsors. The agency's answer was a program called...
Sirs: In a year which saw man's greed, stupidity, inhumanity, soar to unprecedented heights, one must look to physical rather than intellectual qualifications to define the Man of the Year. Peak product of the youngest race an symbol of its ascendancy-inevitable Jesse Owens...
George J. Peak, Winchester, Ill. horse breeder: "A horse is like a child. He will take advantage of a person who handles him in an uncertain manner. You can control him better if you are unafraid." Conceding the point for domestic creatures, Frank ("Bring 'Em Back Alive") Buck declared: "As a rule, 'man-smell' will make a wild animal run as fast...
Thowing precedent off the lot, Korda begins his version of Rembrandt with the painter at the peak of popularity and wealth and stops the cameras while the hero still lives and chuckles. The first axe to fall on Rambrandt's life is the death of his loved wife, Saskia, followed shortly by the failure of the painting "The Night Watch" to please the vain guardsmen. Rembrandt skids down hill, his style goes out of favor and his house-keeper-mistress (Gertrude Lawrence) becomes a shrew. He finds a few short years of peace and success with the adoring Hendrickje Stoffels...