Word: propsed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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At any rate, "Jezebel" is a play too deadly to allow any actress of talent unqualified success. The author is Owen Davis, and his perception of life has not changed much since "Nellie, The Beautiful Cloak Model." In "Jezebel" he digs out all the old props of Southern melodrama, with...
Tillie and Gus (Paramount). Tillie (Alison Skipworth) is the dilapidated proprietress of a waterfront gambling house in China. Gus (W. C. Fields) is a down-at-heels Alaskan gambler, who has just escaped being lynched for murder. Long since divorced, Gus and Tillie are reunited by the terms of Tillie...
The more radical Brain Trusters pressed the President with this counterargument: "The upturn is largely due to anticipation of heavy Federal spendings on public works. If the program is now curtailed the psychological props will be pulled out from under recovery. Industrial production is already outrunning wages. By spending $3...
". . . Butter, wheat, barley, oats, corn, poultry, raw cotton, petroleum, wood and timber hewn, sawn, planed or dressed; pit props, pit wood, staves and sleepers; plywood, builders' woodwork including window frames, doors and parts thereof.
Why it may be said that the Whitneys as a family, and the Jock Whitneys as individuals, are the chief props & mainstays of fine horses and horse racing in the U. S., can be gathered from the following list of places where Whitney flat-racers, steeplechasers, brood mares, stallions, polo...