Word: smashings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...children, Peggy, Jane, and Seth, played respectively by Mary Carlisle, Mae Clark, and Tom Brown, all have interests, or rather complaints, of their own. In Peggy's case it is a too-young college girl's desire "to lead a life of her own" that causes the eventual smash and "disillusionment." Jane's trouble centers in her fiance, a too-practical, selfish man. Least likeable of all is Seth, whose chief hope in life is to make the best fraternity and wear the best clothes. It is Seth's automobile accident that finally arouses the family instants of the group...
...gold yachting cup in 1905 from Kaiser Wilhelm II, Mr. Marshall, during the War, gave it to the Red Cross for auctioning. Each time the highest bidder, having paid, returned the cup for further auctioning. When a series of such auctions had realized $125,000, Mr. Marshall decided to smash the cup, melt the gold for Red Cross benefit. Before an audience which included President Wilson he cracked it once. The cup fell apart, turned out to be mostly pewter, worth...
Edward Noyes Wescott, author of "David Harum" died before his book was published and consequently could not enjoy the material benefits of being the writer of the smash hit of the early 1900's. Members of another generation will be able to remember when several of the lines in the motion pictures were the sayings and by-words...
...against the ropes but failed; Loughran, fast on his feet, landed one solid right hand punch. The fourth round was Loughran's, but by now Camera had learned how to crowd his opponent into the corners. In the fifth, he caught Loughran against the ropes and began to smash his face with wide clublike blows. A blonde woman near the ringside let out a piercing scream. Alarmed, Camera turned his head to see what was the matter. When he looked back, Loughran had danced out of reach...
...spot it. They tell their office and their office tells the newspapers in some 75,000 words a day. Thus, when the Times reports that a woman's body was fished out of the East River, or that an out-of-town buyer was killed in a taxi smash, or that three subway beggars got 30 days, it means in most cases that City News supplied the facts to the Times...