Word: puffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hither and yon in the breezes of August. A scene fished upon his inner eye,--the scene of two vessels, well out to sea, one a stately yacht, glistening with brass and pearly canvas, the other a grim, gray cutter of the revenue fleet. At the same moment a puff of white smoke escaped the muzzle of the signal gun on the prow of the cutter, and an instant later the towering schooner was headed into the wind, her tops' I canvas rattling like the sound of cannon on high...
...Please send me a powder puff, face cream and a lipstick. I don't want anything else but a bath. The bandits intend to keep moving until the pursuit ceases. Please persuade the police and soldiers to keep away, otherwise they say we will be killed...
...give her a letter. Lady & Gent (Paramount). Throughout this picture George Bancroft has a miserable time. He is Slag Bailey, a superannuated pugilist who turns up drunk for the bout on which his manager (James Gleason) has bet their last nickel. Beaten, his ruin is completed when his mistress. Puff (Wynne Gibson), has her night club wrecked by gangsters, when his manager gets shot while opening a fight club's safe. While Puff and Slag are squabbling over their misfortunes they receive a telegram which makes Puff suspect that the manager has hidden some of Slag's earnings...
...mood of recent writing which, finding pugilism a subject suitable for one-syllable prose, has diligently deprived it of whatever romantic aspects it may once have possessed. The rest of Lady & Gent is in quite another mood. At the house where they suspect the manager has hidden the money, Puff and Slag find instead a small boy. They adopt him. Slag gets a job in the steel mill. Puff becomes a model hausfrau. They send the boy through school and college. The climax arrives when the youth, already a college football hero, wants to become a professional prizefighter...
...Puff. Representing 29 U. S. peace-promoting organizations. Mrs Laura Puffer Morgan called on Ambassador Gibson at Geneva, gave the President's proposals a thoroughgoing puff...