Word: peanut
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Town (Universal) is an example of the peanut-on-a-pyramid school of cinema. The peanut is a story about a struggling young orchestra leader (George Murphy) and a stage-struck heiress (Doris Nolan) who, when he makes it plain to her that she is a failure as a chorus girl, retaliates by hiring him to put on a show in her skyscraper night club. The pyramid is the irrelevantly impressive edifice of songs, dances and specialty acts supporting this picayune and wrinkled anecdote. On a broad base of music by Jimmy McHugh and Harold Adamson, Universal's first...
...zone, cleared the area around the plants, tore down pickets' shanties, hauled away a union sound truck, had four agitators jailed. Since the troops allowed no one into the zone without a military pass the sit-downers' food-supply was cut off. They patronized candy and peanut slot machines inside the plants, yawped hungrily from the windows. Cigarettes were at a premium. As every National Guard unit in Michigan was ordered mobilized for possible duty, John L. Lewis sped to the scene from Washington...
...White House in Washington last week Eleanor Roosevelt lay on her back recovering from grippe and thinking kind thoughts of the world-kind thoughts of the venerable G. A. R., whose martial music she could hear through her window; kind thoughts of Steve Vasilakos, the peanut merchant on whose behalf she interceded for the second time when police tried again to oust his pushcart from the White House corner; kind thoughts of her own husband. For as Mrs. Roosevelt reported in My Day, the President "asked Mrs. Scheider who was doing my column and she said, 'Mrs. Roosevelt...
...board the Manhattan were nine tons of milk, 1,600 Ib. of peanut brittle. Athletes complained about their food the first day out, got permission to drink & smoke...
...famed soft drink, originated in Waco and the late Mary Louise ("Texas") Guinan was born on a nearby potato ranch. San Angelo makes its living from sheep and from goats, of which Texas possesses 90% of the U. S. supply. Abilene is a livestock town, also markets peanut products, poultry remedies, artificial limbs. Uvalde is famed as the home of John Nance Garner and as the world's biggest honey centre...