Word: resorting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...avoid annoyance by gapers and because the air of Palm Springs is often dusty, none of the desert scenes were shot at the resort but at an unfashionable hamlet called Palmdale, twelve miles away. Palm Springs' exteriors were built on the Paramount lot. Among the highly agreeable music interlarding this inoffensive picture is The Hills of Old Wyoming, which Wyoming's delegates to both the Republican and Democratic National Conventions chose last week as their official song...
...bald-headed Ekizian's being a Turk. I am certain that Ekizian, himself an Armenian, would not have informed sport scribes that he was a Turk-an insult to any true Armenian! Majoring in journalism at school, I am quite aware of the fact that some reporters resort to "sensationalism" to ask for a raise the next morning; or perhaps they are alliteration fiends unable to find one for "Armenian," use "Terrible Turk" and "Krushing Kurd." Let him be known hereafter as the "Artful Armenian." Having retired from the U. S. Navy a few years ago, Ekizian is known...
...Lower Rio Grande's fruits & vegetables. Once a smuggling port known as "Colonel Kinney's Ranch and Trading Post," Corpus Christi ships cotton, with shrimp and oysters as sidelines. Port Aransas is the world's greatest crude oil shipping port and a famed fishing resort. Port Arthur, founded by John W. ("Bet a Million") Gates, and Beaumont, birthplace of Athlete Mildred ("Babe") Didrikson, form the world's biggest oil refining centre...
...They Were Married (Columbia) begins with a conflict between a divorcee (Mary Astor) and a widower (Melvyn Douglas), who pretend to dislike each other when they find themselves temporarily snowbound in a winter resort, quickly draws into the conflict the woman's small daughter (Edith Fellows), the man's small son (Jackie Moran). Having estranged their elders, the children manage to unite them once more by getting them jailed as suspected kidnappers...
...Vienna officially on a vacation trip. To informed observers, however, it was heavily significant that the Bourbon wedding was the chance of a lifetime to confer with all Austria's leading royalists at once. Sir Austen was supposed to have brought word from London that as a last resort against a Nazi Putsch in Austria, Britain was ready to back the restoration of Pretender Otto to the Austrian Imperial Throne...