Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gangster pictures, when well executed--provided they have a good plot, and are properly organized--are usually interesting, if not amusing, but with the market flooded with this type of movie, a poor or mediocre one falls decidedly flat. With a decidedly poor plot to begin with, Morris and Blondell--to whom credit must be given for being well chosen for their parts--emote, snarl, and wisecrack at each other in a half hearted manner, Blondie's high pressure, big, beautiful, blue eyes exude sex appeal which usually missed the mark, and Morris has a difficult time in his dramatic...
...handsome, white-haired General Zika Popescu, Secretary-General of the Ministry of War and Commandant of the First Rumanian Army Corps. When Popescu got the summons to appear for questioning, he wrote out farewell letters saying the accusations were intolerable, that he had taken no bribes, was dying poor. Then he put a bullet through his head...
Died. Countess Tokiko Yamamoto, 73, Japanese "Cinderella"; of a stomach ulcer; in Tokyo. Third daughter of a poor fisherman, she was sold at 14 to the proprietor of a house in Tokyo's Yoshiwara (prostitution) district. A young naval officer fell in love with, kidnapped, married her. He became Admiral Count Gombei Yamamoto, twice (in 1913 & 1923) Premier of Japan...
...here and they was married a good half-hour before the baby come." Ma had to get the sheriff after Ella's Oscar, but then everything was all right. Laura's baby "come so little ahead of time it wasn't hardly noticeable," but poor Laura married the wrong man. When Lizzie and Carl had a lover's quarrel, Ma straightened it out herself with a shotgun. Evie had a real wedding with all the fixings; but her sisters were horrified when she told them why she had no cause to hurry...
...stockholder in the closed banks, voiced the feelings of all stockholders. If the old banks are liquidated they will lose their investment, might be called upon for double liability. Meantime Roman Catholic Bishop Gallagher grumbled: "I have my diocese to run. Cash balances are tied up. Collections . . . are poor. It's a pretty...