Word: return
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night Julie's good night to Pres is a slap fully as resounding as that which Scarlett O'Hara deals to Ashley Wilkes to give Gone With the Wind its real start. When Pres goes, Julie is confident he will come back. A year later he does return, with a Northern bride (Margaret Lindsay). With every vixenish wile she can think of, Julie tries to satisfy her longing and her hate. When a duel born of her scheming results in Buck Cantrell's death, even her motherly aunt (Fay Bainter) calls Julie a Jezebel...
...yellow fever sweeps out of the bayous and the people of New Orleans, among them Pres Dillard, begin to drop. When it comes time to remove Pres to the leper and fever colony on Lazarette Island, whence few return, Julie, strong in apparent regeneration, goes to nurse him, while his trustful Northern bride stays behind to pray for their return...
...Twentieth Century-Fox called Mr. Moto (Peter Lorre) into the Gamble case (originally called Charlie Chan at the Ringside) after the disappearance from the Fox Western Avenue studios last January of Hon. Detective Chan (Warner Oland). One day during production he stepped out to the water cooler, failed to return, leaving the Ringside case unsolved and Twentieth Century-Fox in danger of being $100,000 out of pocket. The availability of Mr. Moto saved the $100,000, added a feather to the cap of resourceful Producer Sol M. Wurtzel. Later found at his home, Hon. Chan pleaded illness, was granted...
...President Havell extended the suspension for two weeks more. Hopefully, a test letter to 10,000 subscribers pleaded: "Literary Digest is not just another magazine; it is an American Institution of major importance. It cannot be allowed to die. . . . We ask you to put a dollar in the enclosed return envelope. . . . Your dollar will be credited to your subscription as an increase in rate...
...discovered Enright had lent some $2,000,000 of its customers' funds to the Hyman partners; the floor partner of Thomas & Griffith, suspended from dealing on the Exchange for three years because the firm had over-hypothecated customers' funds, but not prosecuted because it was able to return the securities. To cap his list, Mr. McCall had a new case last week-Campagnoli & Co., a house dealing in over-the-counter securities for a highly reputable clientele. Last week suave President Hugo Campagnoli and two associates pleaded not guilty to 28 counts for practices almost identical with Richard...