Word: publican
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From within a pub at Weymouth (England) after hours, a passing constable one night last week heard a cheerio voice propose: "Come on, let's have one for the road." His duty was clear. He routed out the publican, haled him before a magistrate. But the laugh was on the constable. The voice from within was no after-closing tosspot's, it was Lord Haw-Haw of Zeesen, No. 1 Nazi propagandist to Britons, tossing off a Briticism over short-wave radio...
...Rejected a proposal to switch control of the Association's $827,000 treasury from the tight, autocratic board of directors to a new board of trustees chosen by the democratic assembly. ¶ Listened to speeches by onetime R publican Representative Burton L. French of Idaho, Democratic Governor Paul V. McNutt of Indiana, Socialist Norman Thomas, refused to pay to have them broadcast. ¶ Voted to oppose "war and military training," but turned down a resolution condemning the Reserve Officers Training ¶ Censured the school boards of Valhalla N. Y., Alexandria, Ind., Corunna, Mich., Lock Haven State Teachers College...
Suzy was never a professional. The U. S. niece of a London publican's wife, she went to England to dance in a variety show. When she lost her job she became a decoration around her aunt's bar. For something better to do, she took up with a loud-mouthed Jew named Harry Bexler. Her real adventures began when a German agent broke into their bedroom, shot Harry because he knew too much about his boss's secret business. Suzy left England in a hurry, took refuge in Paris. There she sang in a cabaret, shared a room with...
...Torozko, Rumania, looks up the birth credentials of the village belle, he finds that she is not, as she thinks, the daughter of Catholic peasants but a Jewish foundling. Klari (Jean Arthur) promptly breaks her engagement to the village tosspot, goes to live with a kindly old Hebrew publican (Sam Jaffe), learns to like the Talmud. The town recorder looks into the matter further and discovers that Klari is neither Jew nor Catholic but a Protestant foundling. She shuts the Talmud and reopens her engagement...
...amiable racial controversies in The Bride of Torozko are decorated by observations like the publican's: "Everyone should be a Jew for four weeks. As for me, two weeks would be enough." It contains its complement of minor characters: a simpleton, a schoolmaster. Klari's girlfriend. If it bad been transplanted, like Sidney Howard's The Late Christopher Bean, instead of merely translated, by Ruth Langner, its merits as a play might have been more apparent...