Word: shake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lately International's directors have been tightening up on budgets, paring personnel. An executive shake-up occurred last spring when E. A. Charlton resigned, to be succeeded as active boss of the paper mills by Kraftman Cullen. At a board meeting last month it was decided that Mr. Graustein should resign as president of International Paper Co., remain as head of International Paper & Power, the top holding company. Presumably Mr. Cullen was to have a free hand in paper, Mr. Graustein in power...
...unimpressive. In Strike Me Pink, cast as a cabaret entertainer who nearly demolishes Eddie Pink's romance with a wholesome blonde (Sally Eilers), she comes into her own, sings all three of the show's best songs: First You Have Me High, Then You Have Me Low!, Shake It Off With Rhythm, Calabash Pipe...
...deed done, he fled from England with his daughter-south to Marseille, to Africa, to the Italian islands, to Berlin. He doubled and twisted cunningly to shake off the dreaded pursuer, but his hope dwindled. One night he gave himself away by getting drunk and writing a letter to his enemy, addressing it to Hell but in care of the proper London business address. After that it was only a matter of time before the pursuer found his hiding place. At last Wace went to earth in Berlin, smuggled himself into his daughter's apartment and decided never...
...Barclay (melvyn Douglas), who is as efficient as she and even more mechanical. In this she succeeds, clearing up a nice domestic mess (spoiled child, neurotic sister, filching servants, and all) on the side, only to find that she is a wife in name only. Julia's efforts to shake her husband out of his stodgy absorption in business finally succeed in a grand drunk at the expense of the butler's supply of Scotch. If half your pleasure in the late lamented Harvard football season was the drunks in the stands, weep no more, for here is a lovely...
...prosecutor tried to show that Edith was a fast filly who had saddened her honest mountaineer father with her late hours and citified ways. But he could not shake her story of the fight. It was further corroborated by 11-year-old Sister Mary Catherine who, when twitted by the prosecutor for forgetting certain details, leaned out of the witness chair and yelled: "And you wouldn't remember so good either if you had been as scared as I was that night with Pappy a-yellin' and a-cussin' and Edith a-tryin' to outrun...