Word: pets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with 1,029,670 tons capacity. Even before the defense boom, Coast consumption far exceeded its capacity; now, with a terrific expansion of shipbuilding, demand and supply are farther apart than ever. A big local steel industry to make the West independent of the East has long been a pet idea of the Army, was urged by President Roosevelt in 1939. Existing steel companies say it would cost more to make steel on the Coast than to ship it from Chicago. But Kaiser thinks his setup, with no obsolete equipment to carry and with cheap gas and power, could actually...
...declined to read the script for Director Taurog's second try. That may have been unfortunate. For Men of Boys Town substitutes tears for sincerity. No one has time for happiness at Boys Town because the boys are too busy blubbering-over the death and burial of a pet mutt, the refusal of an embittered reform-school inmate to cheer up, the adoption and departure of their boy mayor...
Following the present fad of humorizing homicide (Arsenic and Old Lace, Mr. and Mrs. North), Topper Returns puts the emphasis on nonsense. Some of it is just tiresome repetition of one of the cinema's pet tricks-an invisible person startling the other characters by smoking a cigaret, rowing a boat, opening a door. Some is fair comedy-Roland Young's befuddled resignation to a world of phantoms and foul play; the friendly insolence of Eddie Anderson (Radio Comic Jack Benny's radio butler, Rochester Van Jones). All of it is hokum, tried & true...
Congratulations! This ambitious little clique whom you so very nearly called rats are in truth just that, rats I mean. They have pulled and pushed and wheedled for their pet projects and powers until this nation is more like a madhouse than any other I know of. I for one am hoping that we citizens won't let the leaders of business and industry be sidetracked and "kicked upstairs" into the positions of glorified stuffed shirts that you indicate...
...years has been president of the Richmond S. P. C. A. Her favorite Sealyham, Jeremy, is buried in a little marked grave at one side of the back porch. At the other side lies the grave of a poodle. Two other Glasgow dogs are buried in the Richmond pet cemetery under marble stones. Novelist Glasgow likes dogs so much that she has a collection of some 75 porcelain and pottery dogs. James Branch Cabell also keeps a collector's zoo-lions, cows, horses, elephants, rhinoceroses in glass, bronze, amber, porcelain and terra cotta. One day Cabell admired...