Word: pining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Francis J. O'Connor, Jr. -- Miss Jane Garland, Pine Manor...
...season. Clad in a blue Brittany shirt, bleached and streaked with white from long hours in the sun, knee length shorts that showed pock-marks of paint of as many colors as Joseph's coat, and a pair of dirty sncakers, he whittled lazily, contentedly, at a splinter of pine he'd found among the odds and ends at the end of the pier. Whittling, dangling his legs, he fitted and blended into the picture of the sky and the marine yard and the dark blue water...
...finickiness of aged guests. He was mighty glad to go to sea again. Three months after her maiden voyage he made a trip on the Queen Mary. It was his hardest job. Eighteen-hour shifts, plus the teeth-rattling vibration in crew quarters directly over the propellers, made him pine for land once more...
...hoydenish city of fancy, flouncy ladies, sporting gents, muddy boulevards, the Widow O'Leary (Alice Brady) settles her brood in the pine-shantied "Patch," takes in washing, raises her boys, accumulates hard-earned comfort and Daisy, the cow. That Daisy's right hind hoof packs a punch that will bear watching is evident when she kicks young Bob (Tom Brown) into the arms of Gretchen, the house girl (June Storey), to settle the future of the youngest O'Leary. The eldest. Jack (Don Ameche), becomes a lawyer with lofty principles, low income. Dion (Tyrone Power), heir...
...setting of pine boughs and mistletoe, Johnny Allen's orchestra will play for the Deacons' Christmas dance tomorrow night from 9 to 2 o'clock...