Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contest between Powell, as salesman of the policy, to keep Hobart alive, and his defrauders' determination to kill him off. To any person of the slightest moral stamina, it ought not to be laughable to see two low fellows trying to drown a middle-aged man, supposedly sick, in a swimming pool. Yet this scene is very funny. So are the results when the villains, now desperate, hire Genevieve (Glenda Farrell) to excite J. J.'s passion, hoping the rise in blood pressure will kill him. But Genevieve falls in love with J. J., divulges the plot...
Most artificial advantage of Sun Valley is Sun Valley Lodge. It is built of concrete poured into timber molds to look like wood, decorated by Marjorie Oelrichs, wife of Bandleader Eddy Duchin. whose theory was that its guests would be so sick of snow that anything white would be offensive. Most delectable feature of Sun Valley for ardent skiers will be the world's most elaborate rigs for pulling humans up hills. An ordinary rope ski-tow, with padded bars to lean on, will function on Proctor Mountain (named for Sun Valley's ski expert and chief...
...Simpson into British newspapers as the King's intended wife and occasioned His Majesty's abdication ten days later. Cousin Newbold found Cousin Wallis "still as gay, still as witty, but now she smiles more often than she laughs . . . diamonds and rubies . . . two orchids . . . bruised and sick at heart . . . ripened and matured. . . . She is 39 years old, other reports to the contrary. . . . She hates cats and flying and sham and winter sports (although she has tried them in company with the ex-King...
...Rose Bowl bid on the grounds that it will attract too much publicity of the wrong kind. It is not strange that the football players in football romances get away with one scene, at the most, of studying, but very strange that the public has not yet grown sick of films that mix a little fake football, some wishy-washy cracks, and high school romance...
Athens three years ago, Mme Helen Coyimzoglu, 35, threatened in Chicago to sue unless he made immediate settlement. Styled by her lawyer as the "wife of the world's largest date merchant," she said: "I just helped Mr. Insull while he was old, sick, hunted and deserted." Said Mr. Insull: "Mme Coyimzoglu is, as I have always said, a very fine woman." Romping backstage in Memphis, cubbish Bob Crump, son of the city's Democratic Boss Edward Hull ("Ed") Crump, squirted soda-pop over Helen Morgan's white organdie Scandals costume. Irked, Torchsinger Morgan retaliated with...