Word: poker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most notable feature of this cockeyed production is that its skits and blackouts represent a definite progression in revue humor from the bedroom to the bathroom, a metamorphosis illustrated nowhere better than in the Wild West poker game which revolves around a bottle of Pluto Water. Unchanged and unchanging, however, are the Carroll girls. As pretty and as hussy as ever, they bring their erotism a bit closer to the bald-headed row this year by pulling off their garters, tossing them to nearby spectators...
...another campaign speech in it. So did national politicians who had watched from the inside his quiet march from a Texas greenhorn in 1903 to Speaker of the House in 1931 upon the death of his great & good Republican friend Nicholas Longworth. But Jack Garner, with his love for poker and baseball, his fondness for a good highball with good friends, his habit of going to bed every night at 9 o'clock sharp, did not fit the public concept of an able politician, much less of a great statesman...
...like to visit with their friends the Morgenthaus, the Marcossons, the Roger Strauses (American Smelting), or drive through Brooklyn's back streets to find some dinky restaurant where the steaks are thick and juicy. Their social calendar includes two invariable annual events. One is the Once-a-Year Poker & Pretzel Club, for which Mr. Sulzberger & friends were obliged to journey to Washington this year because Secretary Morgenthau was too busy to come to Manhattan. The other is the New Year's Eve party in the Sulzbergers' rich mansion in East Eightieth Street near Central Park. From...
Currently the red-hot poker of Japanese politics is the "organ theory" of Japan's No. 1 Constitutional lawyer Dr. Tatsukichi Minobe. Quietly taught from Dr. Minobe's two standard textbooks in Japanese universities for 30 years, this constitutional concept was suddenly spotted two months ago by outraged Japanese jingoes (TIME, March 18). Not exactly contradicting the official legend that the Emperor of Japan is descended from the Sun Goddess, Dr. Minobe's works soberly refer to the Son of Heaven as "an organ of the Nation." What is more important, Dr. Minobe has steadfastly opposed...
Spacious, handsome and rambling as a musicomedy should be, Mississippi contains an engaging quintet of singing pickaninnies called The Cabin Kids and three good songs by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart: "It's Easy to Remember," "Down By the River," "Soon." Fields is at his best in a poker game sequence in which he frantically draws ace after ace when he already holds four. Curiously for cinema, Joan Bennett is cast in a role which requires her to make the initial declaration of love, the first request for a kiss...