Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Funniest situation: Messrs. Haley & Silvers finding themselves recuperating from a- pair of dreadful hangovers in the same bed. Most amusing lyric, sung by Miss Merman in a levee resort...
...halting little tale which Gay Divorce has to tell relates the adventures of a young man who finds himself at an English seaside resort pining for the girl he spent a day with a fortnight before, after which she vanished. Her sudden reappearance is fraught with complications, since she is bent on getting a divorce on the strictly technical grounds of adultery and soon is under the delusion that her young man is the professional corespondent for whom she is waiting. Dancer Astaire, the young man. only once loses his temper with Miss Luce, the extremely tempting young woman. With...
...indicate that the $60,000 reduction will in large measure be vindicated and alleviated by full Houses. The second proposal, hardly surprising, is that maintenance costs shall be reduced. And finally, though only cursory mention is made of it, "recourse to other available funds" is named as a final resort...
...been a poor season. Deauville, Le Touquet, Aix, Biarritz, Vichy and Cannes all reported losses averaging from 25% to 66% of their 1931 income. There was only one bright spot. Fifty years ago when nearby Deauville contained nothing but shrimp fishermen and Norman cider makers, Trouville was a fashionable resort. This year there were in Trouville enough holiday makers who could no longer afford Deauville prices to jack its casino profits from...
...youth, sits in the centre of a web of rootin', tootin', shootin' lawlessness. Her name is Salt Chunk Mary. But although she conducts a thieves' den and liquor saloon, Salt Chunk is violently opposed to white slavery, has a 14-karat heart. To her resort comes a youthful badman who soon pokes his neck in the shadow of the gallows. Salt Chunk, drawn to him by some strange fascination, makes him promise to go straight, helps him escape with the sweetheart he has picked up in her place, dies of the bullet intended for him just...