Word: pour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American tennis titan, Tilden, and thus brought to France the Davis Cup. There it has remained despite the fact that in Shields, Lott, Allison, Van Ryn, and Vines, America has the greatest collection of tennis players alive and most probably the greatest individual player. Yet France continues to pour water on her already soggy courts and Champagne into the historic bowl...
...bank in the fourth city of the land one morning last week. It looked like a run. But practically every bank in the city had been shut tight for six long weeks and this crowd was waiting for the doors to open, not to demand their money but to pour checks & cash into National Bank of Detroit...
...Schacht, then President of the Reichsbank and famed for his success in stabilizing the German mark in 1924 at its present gold value, predicted catastrophe if U. S. and other foreign loans continued to pour into Germany, did what he could (not much) to stem the flood...
...draw any conclusions regarding life in Paris, we are told, from "Coiffeur Pour Dames," by Paul Arnot and Marcel Gerbidon, now being shown at the Geography Building. As a matter of fact, the Hollywood elegance at once turned our thoughts more to this side of the Atlantic than to Paris. In this "comedie de boulevards," Mario, an ambitious, if somewhat effeminate peasant, rises from shearing lambikins of the literal sort to those of a figurative sort. One of those who is unfortunate enough to have his most fervent prayers answered, he becomes the most famous hairdresser in Paris, quite neglects...
...Coiffeur pour Dames" has all the exaggeration and imagination of a Rene Claire piece, but none of the finesse. The situation is not preposterous enough to suit our spoiled taste in French pictures, but the lines (we are told) are hilariously funny. The brief travelogue preceding the feature dealt with Chartres, Laon, and Rheims in an unsatisfactory Fogg Museum way--old stuff none too well presented. The Harvard wives (who comprised a majority of the audience) had a very pleasant afternoon...