Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that quivered from excitement, Crier Woollcott told his hearers that he had ''a news beat." He told that General John Joseph Pershing, visiting Financier Bernard Mannes Baruch on his Scotland estate, had gone grouse shooting. This in itself was not news; generals are expected to like to pull triggers now and then. The news was that General Pershing had been so careless as to hit in the face Supreme Court Justice Richard Paul Lydon instead of a grouse...
...Miscellany" and that now, after three years of development, it will become primarily "a magazine devoted to the arts and letters" with nothing more than a geographical connection with Harvard. In stating that the title has been changed because it misrepresented their intentions, the editors appear to be either pulling the wool over their eyes, or what is more likely, trying to pull it over the eyes of its readers...
...with faint praise; but it need not worry any one because these gentlemen so overshadow the remaining performers and performances that "the show aside from the Marx brothers" need not even be taken into consideration. They are the evening's entertainment, and better could not be asked. They pull exactly the same sort of gag which they did in "The Cocoanuts" and "I'll Say She Is", and, wonderful to relate, it is just about as effective as it was in either of these preceding masterpieces. For example Harpo blows the same smoke bubbles; makes the same faces; goes through...
Santa Fe's Story on Air Transportation. Like the best of horsemen, who might try to make a race horse and a draft horse pull smoothly in a team, William Benson Storey has his troubles. He is president of The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. Also, he is closely interested in Transcontinental Air Transport, which uses Santa Fe rail service for part of its route and competes with the Santa Fe for more. Also, he is director of the Railway Express Agency, Inc., for whose business both the rail and his air systems compete...
...cackling of women in the lavabo. The Gamblers (Warner). This picture is a ponderous leer at Wall Street corruption. It has that annoying air of knowingness peculiar to bad parlor realism. In extraordinarily ornate offices, ballrooms, conservatories, H. B. Warner, Lois Wilson and Jason Robards argue and glare and pull each other around. The triangle includes a banker and his son who do not want their accounts investigated, a government investigator, and the investigator's wife who was once-and still is-in love with the banker's son. People who go to the movies every night will...