Word: spelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Swing Your Lady (Warner Bros.). When Ed (Humphrey Bogart) and his assistant Popeye (Frank McHugh) wanted to keep their wrestler Joe Skopapolous (Nat Pendleton) from finding out what they were talking about, all they had to do was spell the words. Joe knew that he was matched to wrestle a blacksmith in Plunket, Mo. on Decoration Day. What he did not know was that the blacksmith was a dame (Louise Fazenda). Out skipping rope, Joe met Sadie, paid her the sincerest tribute womanhood could inspire in him: "You're sure a big one all right...
...narrative. Forever Ulysses clips along at a fast pace. Readers who like a breathing spell at intervals may linger over such reflections as these: ". . . The spirit of Greece . . . from the time of Hermes . . has changed but little. . . . When a Greek has learning he understands nothing; and when he knows nothing he understands everything. ... To exploit the natives of every country is for the Greek an atavistic dream. . . . For the Greeks alone have known how to worst the Jews." The resulting Greek portrait may seem to Occidentals as confusing and contradictory as Balkan activities generally, may also constitute a tribute...
...long as the lawmaking mills grind, the fog of uncertainty mocks the industrial planner. Business needs more than a mere breathing spell from legislative experimentation. It needs positive, reliable assurance that the complicated terms and conditions under which it must function are finally determined, subject only to an unmistakable public demand for their amendment. As it is, the businessman is the subject of more legislative concern than the criminal. The latter enjoys far less uncertainty of the laws prescribing his operations. The criminal laws are stabilized...
...Chicago Tribune columnist, the late Bert Leston Taylor, Gallico was made welcome on the Tribune's New York cousin, lusty Daily News. Hired to review movies, he was soon kicked downstairs to the sports department where he reigned as editor and columnist for 14 years, including a brief spell when he was also assistant managing editor. He painfully learned skiing, flying and other sports he wrote about. It made good copy...
...Christmas spirit, solemn, a bit musty, but soothing. The listener knows that if Copey had his way, Christmas would be snowy, with wreaths in the windows, and good fellowship everywhere. Even the young man whose Yuletide always has meant only presents and dances and eggnog is likely, under his spell, to see the advantages of Copey's way. Up on the platform, Copey must realize that fact, must sense it in the quiet appreciation which fills the room. That feeling, imparted to dozens of classes of young men at this time of year, must be gratifying. It is Charles Townsend...