Word: ruining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Immoral and indecent" were The Life of Vergie Winters, Side Streets, Dr. Monica, Road to Ruin, Little Man, What Now?, Born to Be Bad, Girls for Sale, Manhattan Melodrama, Wharf Angel, Merry Wives of Reno, Notorious but Nice, Finishing School, Sisters Under the Skin, Sadie McKee, Fog Over Frisco...
Joshua Abraham Norton, an English Jew, came to San Francisco from South Africa during the '49 gold rush. In 1853 he and a partner tried to corner all the rice in the city, would have done so had not two rice ships arrived unexpectedly in the harbor. Ruin unseated Joshua Norton's reason. He vanished for four years, then turned up in an ill-fitting naval uniform set off with tarnished gold braid and a sabre. He said the California Legislature had made him Emperor of the State. Later, lest his title indicate that California was not part...
Months ago faithful Minister of Public Works McPherson charged that the suit was a political frame-up to ruin the Premier and besmirch Alberta's United Farmers Party in the person of its chief. But last week the Press had eyes chiefly for the plaintiff, beauteous, blonde Miss Vivian MacMillan who is exactly the type Hollywood likes to cast for stardom in courtroom dramas of clean women and dirty politics...
...again when it goes. Even before Depression, a 50% increase in the number of apartment dwellers reduced the demand for furniture in millions of families to little more than a few sticks. Meantime manufacturers piled up inventories of distress furniture, which led to inevitable price cutting and the ruin of 1,000 manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers in a single year (1932). The manufacturing industry managed to right itself last year, has been running on a fairly even price keel since last summer when business booked by wholesalers increased 100% over 1932, and prices on some lines went up as much...
...made under different directors and assembled the parts when completed. Best line: Butterworth's comment on Durante's party: "This place is littered with movie celebrities - and that makes some litter." Channel Crossing (Gaumont British). A financier (Matheson Lang) with a Christ-like beard is threatened with ruin when a clerk (Anthony Bushell), in love with his secretary (Constance Cummings), overhears that some of his securities are forged. The financier takes steps to kill the clerk. When he learns that his secretary loves Bushell, he spares the clerk's life and takes his own instead...