Word: smashings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...murder they cease to trust each other, lie awake nights thinking of schemes for getting the other out of the way. Cora finally proves to Frank that she loves him. After their marriage they turn over a clean page. On the way home she is killed in a motor smash. This time they get him for murder...
...present billing at the University features Joe E. Brown in his latest smash; the boy with the mouth is cast as a gob, and manages to disorganize the personnel of at least one battleship and one admiral's country home. He has developed a penchant for the important sex which would do credit to a disciple of Harpo Marx'; he becomes a boxer for is day; and he winds up under bomb fire on a condemned ship. The film, then, is not without action, and not without comedy relief. It is excellent entertainment. Lack of space precludes any remarks...
...Chapin got his start with the old Olds Motor Works about the time "Come, Away with Me, Lucille. In My Merry Oldsmobile" was a smash hit. But he soon left the merry Oldsmobile and ended up in Hudson in its infancy. He agrees with those engineers who believe that the place to begin streamlining is the rear, not the front of a car. And Hudsons and Terraplanes show his attention to rears, which this year are all strictly teardrop...
...Even curtain calls are not unknown in the motor business. Last week Ford's private show in Manhattan (TIME, Dec. 18) took a curtain call and a week's encore. Ford press agents duplicated in all but formal phrase the theatrical claim: "SMASH HIT! 100 BEAUTIFUL MODELS...
Publisher Stern likes best his papers' editorial page, which he usually writes himself. His lively political philippics helped to smash Philadelphia's Boss William Scott Vare last month. In Philadelphia where there is no Hearst and where the stodgy Bulletin has been a model for the city's other journals, the Record got attention by rowdy headlines, pictures of chorus girls, comic strips, proletarian social-advice columns, interlarded with intelligent liberalism...