Word: plum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stand-in Lester Plum (Joan Blondell) explains her functions to Atterbury Dodd (Leslie Howard), eastern efficiency expert who has come to Colossal studios as stand-in for a bank. Atterbury thinks of picture-making in terms of arithmetic and of picturemakers in terms of cogs and units. At first he occupies a suite in orchid and pale fudge in a famed hotel, but is driven by job-seekers and backslappers to refuge in the boarding house where Miss Plum lives with various cinema people who differ from the successes only in not having jobs. Gradually it dawns on Atterbury that...
...plum with which Dr. Fagg was tempted was the deanship of Northwestern's School of Commerce. At Northwestern, as at several other institutions, the business school has become the biggest branch of the university...
...Bailey Willis, an 80-year-old Stanford geology professor with a handsome white beard. Two years ago a diver, working on the preliminary survey for the Bridge's great south pier 1,000 ft. from shore came up to declare that the rock was "as soft as plum pudding." Dr. Willis devoted months to proving that the rock on which the pier would rest was crumbly serpentine "unstable to a degree likely to endanger the bridge." This blast was apparently the reason the PWA refused to aid the builders. Dr. Willis was presently overwhelmed by numbers...
...brother Richard emigrated to the U. S., set themselves up in the shell-game at Vancouver, B. C. near a good supply of cedar. In 1912, Coach Connibear discovered them, induced them, to move to the Washington campus. Coach Connibear died in 1917, when he fell from a plum tree, broke his neck. By that time Pocock shells and the Connibear system of rowing were becoming the U. S. standards...
...Brien, Mayor LaGuardia has given New York City a shrilly articulate but assiduous, conscientious administration. He runs for re-election next fall against Tammany. Since a World's Fair will be held in New York in 1939. Tammany will fight "The Little Flower" hard to secure this plum...