Word: rims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...score of Jews took up the cry. Jewish mothers clawed their way through the crowd, pried well-slobbered candy out of their children's mouths, turned on the candy-giver. The kindly woman saw a rim of angry faces, felt slaps, blows, kicks, cuffs, scratches. A conductor leaped off his tramcar, went to her rescue. The crowd mauled him thoroughly. Soon the cobbles rang with mounted police. The Jews fell back a little, screaming for the woman's arrest. The police took her and her candy to the police station, found both quite harmless...
...revolting experience of a friend of mine at the communion rail. It occurred many years ago, but she has never forgotten it. 'I was kneeling next to an elderly man,' she says. 'When the cup was passed to me there was a discharge on the rim nearest, so obvious and unmistakable that I fainted. I was told afterwards that the clergyman and the person on my left caught the cup before it reached the floor.' . . ."-Harold F. James, Rochester, N. Y. "I myself 'caught' typhoid fever from a sick parishioner, although I carefully washed...
...suffers the same cold fate as other Hollywood musicomedies. Original ideas such as garden-frocked girls dancing across stepping stones in a pond, or a chorus of 100 carrying assorted dogs in their arms, are made tedious by end less elaborations. Typical shot: miniature chorus girl perched on the rim of a screen-high champagne glass. ¶The Show Off (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). George Kelly's biography of a braggart was voted the best play of 1923 by the Pulitzer Prize play jury. In this modernized cinema version it is likely to recapture much of its old popularity. Though...
...better than $3 a share against $1.95 the previous year. With $37,000,000 in cash & Governments at the year end United Fruit was in the strongest financial position in its history. But Sam Zemurray still wants more, this week sails to inspect his banana lands which now rim the Caribbean...
...waved the finger and pushed back the upturned rim of his tan fedora revealing a stray black lock glued to his moist forehead. "Get a summons? Sure I got a summons. But I'm not going to see the commissioner. I've got no business with him. I'm a busy man. I've got no time to see him. I've got no business with him." Jabbing his finger at the inquisitor, Mr. Samuels emphasized the latter point, intimating that if the commissioner wished to satisfy his curiosity he could do so, but at 30a Boylston...