Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Indian Territory Illuminating Co., Cities Service subsidiary, will benefit from the gusher, co-benefactors will be Vince Sudik and his wife, Mary. In 1903 the Sudiks came from Nebraska, claimed and farmed the now-famed plot of land, will collect about one-eighth of the oil profits. Last week Mrs. Sudik was not on hand to see the gusher. She was visiting a hospital where her first grandchild had just been born. Said she: "My good fortune is having such a lovely granddaughter." Vince Sudik, however, announced his early retirement from active agriculture...
Those who visited Holy Cross Cemetery last week found that the body of Priest Power had been reburied in a new grave. Around it stood a seven-foot fence. Around the old tomb and the whole Power plot were similar barricades. Posted nearby were grim-faced State police. Manifestly neither Church nor State intended to permit helter-skelter demonstrations. Announced Cardinal O'Connell: "Those who go to the cemetery for just and pious reasons must be prepared to obey strictly the regulations, else they will be excluded...
...Barrymore trying, at a dinner party, to cut a rubber squab which squirts out gravy and squeaks, is more hilarious than the same scene would be if a recognized clowner were playing it. But there are other reasons why The Man from Blankley's is unusual comedy. Its plot concerns an inebriated lord who, due to his condition and the heavy fog, arrives at the wrong house for dinner and is mistaken for a hired guest whom the hostess has ordered from an agency. The dialog is witty, and Barrymore, hiccupping slightly, plays through one lunatic scene after another...
Movieland is a thinly-disguised portrait of Hollywood: a series of cinematic, lavishly colored scenes strung together on the thinnest thread of plot-a revue in words, in modern, cynical-sensual style. Hero Jacques Struk, of no stated occupation, comes to Movieland, falls in love with one of its minor but typical stars, artificial, Kleig-eyed, burntout; after her death he fades from the picture. Movieland is ruled by Director Emerson, absolute autocrat; its queen is Carlotta Bray, perennial virgin lover, who gives herself to millions on the screen, to none in the flesh, and is finally raped to death...
Land for the new building was purchased in April, 1929, and it was expected that construction would begin last September. The site, which has been definitely picked, is the plot of ground across Divinity Avenue from the museum, a little to the east of Divinity Hall and the Semitic Museum. It is expected that the structure will be in the shape of an "L", projecting between the two latter buildings...