Word: playground
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nobody remembers his name but oldtime vacationers at Atlantic City, N. J. ("Playground of the World") say that the resort's first sand sculptor was a young artist who showed up on the beach one day in the 1890's and molded from a mountain of wet sand a lifelike figure of a scantily-clad young woman clutching a baby. He labeled the result "Cast up by the Sea." The piece so affected passersby on the boardwalk above that they tossed coins down to the artist, who was soon followed to the beach by other itinerant modelers...
...little cards which read "NO TIPPING. Our waiters are glad to serve you without gratuities," and which usually add gentle preachment about the dignity of man. But news would be any nation where tipping was against the national law, big news if that nation were France, tourist playground of the world, synonym for good food and good service rewarded via the outstretched palm. Last week Léon Blum, reaching the end of his first year as Premier-a year which he said was notable for "the restoration of human dignity" in France-was out to make just such...
...than the laws. Officially entrusted to a special director of the Department of Trade & Commerce, control over insurance companies frequently fell into the hands of lawyer-politicians who were not above doing a good turn at the expense of policyholders. The extent to which Illinois had become an insurance playground became abruptly clear in 1932, when eight of the nine insurance failures in the U. S. that year were Illinois companies. Biggest of these, and third or fourth biggest insurance crash of the Depression, was Illinois Life, which had $150,000,000 in policies outstanding when the siphoning of Chicago...
...Devil's Playground" is all about how a naval officer marries a no-good woman, punches his best friend on the jaw when he finds him kissing her, decides to let the man suffocate when he sinks to the bottom of the ocean in a submarine, since he alone in all the navy can dive deep enough to rescue him, but goes and fetches him up at the very last minute, when he learns what a wicked siren he is married to. There is no objection to the familiarity of these elements; one might only wish that they were joined...
Devil's Playground (Columbia) lacks novelty of background, U. S. naval deep-sea work having been used before. Jack Dorgan (Richard Dix) is a diver who can stand more subaqueous pressure than anyone else at the San Diego base but blows up handsomely when he finds Bob Mason (Chester Morris) in over-close proximity to Mrs. Dorgan (Dolores Del Rio). After Mrs. Dorgan has told the truth about this situation, Jack goes out to rescue Bob who is wrecked in the submarine Nautilus at a depth of 300 ft. Barring some crude miniature shots, the sequences dealing with...