Word: publicanism
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...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...
...Florey was the son of a publican in a Cornish raining town that had fallen on evil days. A bright lad, Tom dreamed of a brighter future than tending bar, and his schoolmasters wanted him to try for a scholarship at Oxford. When Publican Florey put his foot down on such nonsense Tom moped at home, revolved methods of escape. When the offer of a post as tutor in a German family opened the door, Tom was out like a flash. He got along famously with his employer, a distinguished Nobel Prizewinning author and his queer menage, fell in love...
...Percy the Prosperous, Robert L. McKee '37; Egbert the Eccentric, Paul Killiam, Jr. '37; Lewis the Loving, James W. Tower '35; Albert the Acquisitive, John Michael '35; Herold the Helpful, Whitney M. Cook '36; Inebriated Philosophers. Stephen Greene '37 and William M. Hunt, 2d '36; Draper, Hotel Manager and Publican, William H. Ledgard '36; Girl with the Mask, Betty Anne Noland; Girl with the Ring, Lois Hall; Girl with the Ambitions, Miriam Hurwitt; Girl with the Box, Jean Goodale; Elderly Relative and Nanny, Agnes Love...
...better than he knew horses. Born in Chelsea, Mass, he did not even see a cattle-ranch until at 24 he went to Boulder, Colo. He had worked for the Cambridge Democrat, had graduated from Columbia. At Boulder he became city editor of the Herald. A Bull Moose Re publican in 1912, he supported Woodrow Wilson in 1916 and that same year went to Cheyenne, as city editor of Senator Kendrick's Democratic Cheyenne State Leader. Senator Kendrick took his young editor to Washington, put him to work on speeches and meat packing legislation. But Secretary O'Mahoney...
Chuck Connors (Wallace Beery) is a loud, muddleheaded, arrogant publican, proud of his door-knob derby hat and the biggest barroom on the Bowery. He dis trusts women, entertains a sentimental regard for a waif called Swipes (Jackie Cooper) whose favorite pastime is throwing stones through the windows of a Chinese laundry. Steve Brodie (George Raft ) is a different type of Bowery sport, a sleek, rakish gambling man, envious of Connors' prestige. When Connors befriends a respectable girl (Fay Wray) to the extent of letting her be his cook, slick Brodie promptly makes her his fiancée. When...