Word: recruited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Actor Homolka mars his early sequences by facial displays known as mugging, he finally brings his role under the control that distinguished his work in British films (Rhodes, A Woman Alone). Pug-faced, whimsical Barry Fitzgerald, Hollywood recruit from Ireland's Abbey Players, mugs too, but mugging, reckless shadow boxing and a cinemaddiction to strong drink are the Fitzgerald stock in trade. Ebb Tide provides several "firsts": It is Technicolor's first sea story; Viennese Oscar Homolka's first Hollywood vehicle; blonde Frances Farmer's first appearance in a sarong. Navy Blue and Gold (Metro...
With more than 100 of last year's members already assigned positions in settlement houses, Phillips Brooks House recruit agents await an influx of over 100 new aspirants for social service work early this week...
Music for the fun of it was the keynote of the Instrumental Clubs as they began to recruit members in Phillips Brooks House last night. The Vocal Club, the Banjo and Mandolin Clubs, the Gold Coast Orchestra, and the Specialty division, whose plans for this year include a Christmas trip, will have another evening of trials tonight...
...first serious mistake was to acquire the services of a notorious swindler named Parker H. French, whom he sent to San Francisco to recruit more men, to dicker with Vanderbilt's agents for a loan. When Walker should have executed French, he executed instead an innocent hostage. Native support almost completely vanished when he followed this up by shooting a popular enemy leader. But a worse mistake, even worse than sending French to Washington as Nicaraguan minister, was to revoke the Vanderbilt concession in favor of that hard-fisted financier's double-crossing colleagues, to whom Vanderbilt wrote...
Recalling the World War years, most German-Americans agree that their neighbors' spy hysteria shattered not only their nerves but, for a time, their faith in the U. S. as well. Yet during that frantic period, Austrian Immigrant Ludwig Bemelmans, a 19-year-old U. S. Army recruit whose English could barely be understood, almost completely escaped the spy mania and acquired an affection for the U. S. that embraced factory landscapes, a "wondrously beautiful" prostitute and the insane. My War with the United States, a translation of his German diary, is the record of that sunny Americanization. Smiling...