Word: racketed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...report of Harlan, Ky. mine disorders by Eve Garrette Grady; a sketch of California's Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph; bits of verse; an estimate of the late Ivar Kreuger; a revelation that cowboys on dude ranches sometimes make love to attractive feminine guests; a review of the wrestling racket...
...name was mentioned for the first & only time during the convention. The Utah delegation applauded when a conference on bimetallism was promised. The oil states held a little parade when high oil tariffs were recommended. The house rang righteously with indignation when Chairman Garfield deplored the burgeoning kidnapping racket. Then the words "the 18th Amendment" were pronounced and the atmosphere electrified...
Love is a Racket (First National) shows Douglas Fairbanks Jr., a likable young journalist, attempting to make friends with a young actress (Frances Dee). When, during a penthouse entertainment, a racketeer insults the actress, her aunt immediately kills him. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. shows how quick-witted he is by throwing the racketeer's corpse off the roof. When police find it on the sidewalk, they do not guess about the murder. He is rewarded not by the actress's devotion but by a mean trick such as real colyumists have given the public to understand is particularly likely...
...must be hard for her to do so, for the cracks are not very funny. "Hungry as a toothless timberwolf" is a simile he tosses off while talking about love. Adapted from a novel by Brooklyn Colyumist Rian James, Love is a Racket is brightly acted, particularly by Lee Tracy as a reporter who is always somewhat agitated. It contains a few genuine shots of its metier, including one of Author James's favorite chophouse...
After seeing Is My Face Red? and Love is a Racket, audiences may have been amused by studying colyumists pro & con. If the subject has obsessed them, they can go further...