Word: plugged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dialog or situation makes this picture sparkle, yet it sparkles; its story is unremarkable, yet continuously entertaining. It concerns a prizefighter who loses an important fight because he takes seriously an opponent who tells him his shoe is untied. Later, having returned to his original profession of spark-plug cleaning, he plays polo for his home-town team and makes love to a society girl. Jack Oakie performs these activities with the necessary absurdity, and with wonderfully skillful, probably unconscious character reading. Like all true comedians, his fooling is human and remotely pathetic. Typical shot : Oakie composing a song...
...certain point, but after that one of two things must happen: either the spectator struggles with the technicalities of the selected background, or the director shirks the responsibilities of his climax, brushing through it with a shot of a crowd cheering, or Lord Weatherton putting his bet on Spark Plug, or mechanics pulling the charred body of the villain out of a wrecked plane. In Burning Up, however, the usual situation is reversed. The little triangle, with its hopelessly puerile dialog, has barely enough momentum to suggest a climax until the climax arrives-this time an auto race...
American Tobacco Co. handles about one-third of the cigaret and smoking tobacco, about one-fourth of the plug tobacco sold in the U. S. Among its many familiar brands are Sweet Caporal, Pall Mall, Lucky Strike cigarets, Bull Durham and Half and Half smoking tobaccos. Sales last year totaled some $200,000,000. The advertising appropriation on Lucky Strikes alone was estimated at $12,300,000. As the largest fragment of Thomas Fortune Ryan's Tobacco Trust, which the government dissolved in 1911, American Tobacco Co. occupies in its field somewhat the position held by Standard...
...Formerly when a man bought a plug of tobacco to chew he got a good-sized piece that enabled him to be generous in sharing it with his fellows. Now, largely due to the tax, the plug commonly used does not contain more than a half a dozen good-sized chews. The buyer . . . seeks privacy when he takes a chew in order to avoid sharing it with others...
...Half the drawings reproduced in the first book do not deal with Lincoln but show the rude state of caricatures in the early 19th century. Famed men of the day are shown in typical guises, Editor James Gordon Bennett as a woolly, aggressive cur, President Buchanan as an Irish plug-ugly, President William Henry Harrison with his cider barrel. Many a caricaturist saw Lincoln as the embodiment of evil, a crooked juggler, a murderer (in England), a bad boy with "American manners," an afrite (evil genie). Few drew him as he is done today, compassionate, Christlike. The book amply demonstrates...